| 单词 | wash-tub | 
| 释义 | wash-tubn.  A tub in which clothes are washed: = washing-tub n. at washing n. Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > 			[noun]		 > vessel for washing clothes in wash-bowla1529 buck1530 boyne1532 washing-tub1560 wash-tub1602 bucking-tub1615 buck-vat1620 washing-bowl1622 swill1624 possing tub1659 suds-tub1805 bucking-vat1822 bucking-keir1823 peggy tub1823 poss-tub1829 pounding barrel1853 posskit1855 wash-boiler1875 washpot1926 1602    Inv. in  Collectanea Archæologica 		(1863)	 II. 111  				Fowre boordes, cover of the vate, and a washtubb .xijd. 1753    Scots Mag. Sept. 469/1  				Indicted for drowning in a wash-tub..her son. 1838    C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxvi. 296  				Glancing distractedly at a couple of old women at the washtub. Compounds  wash-tub  n. 		(also wash-tub bass)	 a wash-tub converted into a musical instrument like a double bass by stretching a string across it. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > 			[noun]		 > double-bass > made from tub tub-bass1958 wash-tub1968 1968    Blues Unlimited Nov. 8  				We recorded Dewey Corley, who..plays kazoo and washtub bass. 1970    Western Folklore 29 229  				Two kinds of plucked one-stringed instruments are known to Negroes in America today. One is the familiar one-stringed bass, sometimes called a ‘washtub bass’ or ‘gutbucket’ from the materials of its construction. 1972    Time 17 Apr. 39/3  				He played a washtub in a group named the Five Hip Cats. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  | 
	
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