Tub

tub, n. a two-handed open wooden ve el: a ve el made of staves and hoops: a small cask: anything like a tub: the quantity a tub holds: ( slang ) a pulpit: a clumsy boat: a receptacle for bathing water: the act of bathing in a tub.— v.t. to set, to bathe, in a tub.— v.i. to take a bath in a tub.— n. Tub′bing , the art of, or the material for, making tubs: in mining, a method of keeping out the water in sinking a shaft in watery ground: a tub-bath: rowing in clumsy boats.— adjs. Tub′bish , round and fat; Tub′by , sounding like an empty tub: dull: wanting elasticity of sound: round like a tub.— ns. Tub′-fast ( Shak. ) a proce of treating venereal disease by sweating in a hot tub; Tub′ful , as much as a tub will hold; Tub′-gig , a Welsh car; Tub′-thump′er ( slang ), a ranting preacher; Tub′-wheel , a kind of bowl-shaped water-wheel like the turbine, with spiral flanges at the exterior. [Low Ger. tub be ; Dut. tobbe .]