tub /tub/

1. An open container, orig of wooden staves and hoops, later also of metal, plastic, etc
2. A small cask or carton for food, etc, usu plastic or cardboard
3. Anything like a tub
4. A tubful
5. A pulpit (facetious)
6. A clumsy ship or boat
7. A bath, bathtub (esp N American)
8. A pit-shaft casing
9. A bucket, box or vehicle for bringing up coal from the mine
10. A tubfish

1. To set, bathe or treat in a tub
2. To line with a tub

To take a bath

tubbˈable adjective

Able to be washed in a tub

tubbˈer noun

tubbˈiness noun

tubbˈing noun

1. The art of, or material for, making tubs
2. Mine-shaft lining
3. Rowing in clumsy boats
4. The taking of baths

tubbˈish adjective

Round and fat

tubbˈy adjective (tubbˈier; tubbˈiest)

1. Sounding like an empty tub
2. Dull in sound
3. Plump, round like a tub

tubˈful noun (pl tubˈfuls)

As much as a tub will hold

tubˈfast noun (Shakespeare)

Treatment of venereal disease by fasting and sweating in a hot tub

tubˈfish noun

The sapphirine (or other) gurnard

tubˈ-thump intransitive verb

tubˈ-thumpˈer noun

A declamatory or ranting preacher or public speaker

tubˈ-thumping noun and adjective

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