tubmann.
/ˈtʌbmən/, U.S. /ˈtəbmən/ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > dissenting
tubman1642
tub-preacher1643
tubster1681
missionar1828
1642 P. Bland Royall Position 9 No Conventicling Tub~man should have made my words his text.
1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 97 The meanest Seducer may doe mischiefe, as we finde by the effects of the Tub~men.
1651 J. Jane Εικων Ακλαστος 213 Tubmen whose prayers not only want salt, but are besmeared with prophanes.
2. † a. ? A maker of tubs, a cooper. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > maker of casks or cooper
cooperc1415
trusser1535
hooper1552
tubman1677
tubber1825
tub-thumper1872
barrel-maker1883
1677 (title) A caution to married couples..how a man having beat his wife, murthered a tub-man that endeavoured to stop him from killing her.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6196/7 John Thumwood,..Tub-man.
b. At Christ's Hospital: (formerly) one who had charge of the latrine tubs; (subsequently) a lavatory attendant.
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c1865 Skit Christ's Hospital Has she a round of butter'd toast to give to tubman Joe?
3. A barrister in the Court of Exchequer whose place was beside the tub used as a measure of capacity in excise cases; the position conferred the right of precedence in motions, except over the ‘postman’ and in Crown business. Cf. postman n.3 Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > other barristers
inner, utter, vacation barristera1547
postman1768
tubman1768
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. iii. 28 (note) In the court of exchequer two of the most experienced barristers called the post-man and the tub-man..have also a precedence in motions.
1841 R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer VII. 188 The Attorney-General moved in this case. The Postman and Tubman claimed pre-audience; but upon the Attorney-General's stating that it was the Queen's business in which he moved, the Court decided that he was entitled to be heard before the Postman and Tubman.
1882 Daily News 15 Dec. 2/1 With the appointment of Mr. Anstie as a Queen's Counsel, the ancient office of tubman to the Exchequer disappears.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Aug. 6/1 Sir R. Webster..was called to the bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1868, held the obsolete posts of ‘tubman’ of the Court of Exchequer 1872–74, and ‘postman’ 1874–78, and took silk in 1878.
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