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[Dut. tobbe; Low Ger. tub be. Origin doubtful.j I. Ordinary Language : 1. An open wooden ve el, formed with staves, hoops, and heading; a small cask, half-barrel, or piece of cooper-work, with one bottom and open above; as, a wash - tub , meal - tub , mash- tub , . "Ygeten us these kneding tubbes thre." Chaucer: C. Т. , 3,560. 2. A wooden ve el in which vegetables are planted, so as to be portable and removable into a house in cold weather. 3. Any wooden structure shaped like or resembling a tub; specifically, a certain kind of pulpit. [TUB-DRUBBER.] 4. A small cask or barrel for holding liquor; specifically, a barrel used by smugglers. 5. A bath; the act of taking a sponge bath. ( Colloq . or slang.) "A good tub and a hearty breakfast prepared us for the work of the day."- Field , Feb. 20, 1886. *6. Sweating in a heated tub. (Formerly the usual cure of lues venerea .) "She is herself in the tub . "- Shakesp .: Measure for Measure, iii. 2. 7. A kind of rowing-boat. (See extract.) "Practice in gigs, or more technically styled tubs (small boats to hold a pair of oarsmen, and in the stern of which the coach steers and advises the rowers)."-London Daily Telegraph . 8. The amount which a tub contains, reckoned as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of tea (60 lbs.), a tub of camphor, . 9. A term of contempt for an old-fashioned, slow sailing ve el. "I laughed, for I knew the Osceola -an old tub , built in East Boston, never made more than ten knots an hour." Scribner's Magazine , Nov., 1878, p. 81. IMG:content-1515.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A casing of wood, or of cast-iron sections bolted together, lining a shaft. 3. One form of chamber in which ore or slimes are washed to remove lighter refuse. A tale of a tub : An idle or silly fiction; a cock and-bull story. "You shall see in us that we preached no lyes, nor tales of tubs, but even the true word of God."-Cover dale: An Exhortation to the Cro . (1554.) *tub-drubber, subst . A tub-thumper; a ranting preacher. [TUB-PREACHER.] "The famed tub - drubber of Covent Garden."-T. Brown : Works , iii. 198. *tub-fast, s . A proce of treatment for the cure of venereal disease by sweating in a heated tub for a considerable time, during which the patient had to observe strict abstinence. ( Shakesp .: Timon, iv. 3.) tub-fish, 8. [SAPPHIRINE-GURNARD.] tub-man, 8. Eng . Law : A barrister who has a preaudience in the Exchequer Division of the English High Court, and a particular place in court. [POSTMAN.] *tub-preacher, *tub-thumper, s. A term of contempt for a di enting minister; hence, a rant ing, ignorant preacher or speaker. ( Eng .) "Our thoroughfares are needed, of course, to serve a much more useful cla of people than the oleaginous tub-thumpers." -Observer , Sept. 27, 1885.