tub (tub)

[ tow-line is coiled in a whale-boat.- 2. The contents of a tub; as much as a tub will hold; as a measure of capacity, sometimes erroneously confounded with firkin. A tub of butter, by a statute of George III., was 84 pounds or 14 firkins, but locally still larger. As a measure of corn, by a statute of George II., the tub was 4 bushels. A tub of tea is 60 pounds. 3. Any wooden structure shaped like or resembling a tub. (a) A pulpit: used contemptuously. Compare tub - preacher, tub - thumper. [Slang, Eng.] High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shone Henley's gilt tub , or Flecknoe's Irish throne. Pope , Dunciad, ii. 2. "The Rev. Moses Barra clough: t' tub orator you call him sometimes, I think." "Ah!" said the Rector. "He's a tailor by trade." Charlotte Brontë , Shirley, viii. (b) A clumsy, slow boat or ve el: so called in contempt. There is no uglier ve el than a real old north-country Geordie or coalman, with the run of a sugar-box... The name of this deep and wallowing tub was the Richard and W. C. Ru ell, A Sea Queen, xvi. Ann. (c) A boat used for practice-rowing. The freshmen are put into harne in tub -pairs or four Dickens's Dict. Oxford, p. 17. oars. 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). Daily Telegraph , Feb. 9, 1887. (Encyc. Dict .) 4. A small cask for holding liquor, especially in the eighteenth century, and before the change in English revenue laws; such a cask in which brandy, gin, or the like was smuggled from the Continent. I made three seizures, besides sweeping up those thirty-seven tubs. Marryat, Three Cutters, ii. 5. A receptacle for water or other liquid for bathing the person. See bath - tub. IMG:content-1012.png:[blocks in formation] Eng.] -10. The gurnet. Hall i well . [Prov. polypides or polypites; a tubular zoecium or Eng.]-Cat under a tub ( naut .), a supposed hindrance zoöthecium. or obstacle; an accidental unavoidable delay. Thus, when tubate (tū'bat), a. [ tubatus , tub us , a ve el is prevented from sailing by unavoidable circumtube: see tube .] Forming a tube; tubiform; stances, it is said that some one has a cat under a tub , it a superstition that if a cat is put under a tub it will hinder the ve el from sailing. (New Eng.] Culling tub, a receptacle into which mackerel are thrown to be sorted.-Grog-tub ( naut. ), a tub for holding the grog which used to form part of the crew's rations. - Powder See powdering - tub. - Quenching-tub. See quenching. - Tale of a tub, an idle or silly fiction; a cock and-bull story. Ye say they follow your law, And vary not a shaw, Which is a tale of a tub . tubar; tubular; also, provided with a tube or tubes; tubulate. tubbeck (tub'ek), n. [Burmese.] A sash of silk, or silk and cotton, usually red, worn by women in Burma. tubber (tub'er), n. [ tub + -er1.] 1. A cooper. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] -2. In mining , a sort of pickax. Also called beele . tubber-man (tub'er-man), n. In mining, the man who uses a tubber. Also called beele - man . Cover dale . IMG:content-1013.png:[blocks in formation] Japanese camphor is distinguished from For mos an by being coarser grained, clearer, of pinker hue, and by subliming at a lower temperature. It is also known as "Dutch" or " tub " camphor , the latter name arising from its being imported to Europe in tubs covered with matting, each placed within a second tub secured on the outside by hoops of twisted cane. Spons' Encyc. Manuf . , p. 574. tub (tub), v.; pret. and pp. tubbed , ppr. tubbing . [ tub plants.-2. To bathe in a tub or bath. IMG:content-1014.png:[blocks in formation] We all tub in England. 2. To row in a tub; practise in a tub. See tub, n. tuba (tū'ba), i), n.; pl. tubæ, tubas (-bē, bas). [L., a trumpet: see tube.] 1. A musical instrument of the trumpet family, of very large size and low pitch. It is e entially similar to the bombardon, though not always made in the same shape. Its compa is nearly four octaves, including, by means of three or five valves, all the chromatic tones. The fundamental tone is usually the third F or En below middle C. Lower varieties are often called ba or con tra - ba tubas. The tuba is much used in military bands, and is more or le common in the orchestra, where it is used in conjunction with the trombones. Tuba. 2. In organ - build ing, a reed-stop of large scale, so connected with a separate bellows with extra weights that the tones are of exceptional power and majesty. Usually called tuba mirabilis.-3. In an at. and zoöl., a tube or tubular part or organ; specifically, the Eustachian tube, or salpinx. See hydra tuba (under hydra ), and cut under scyphistoma. - Ba tuba, a musical instrument, the largest of the trumpet family, and the deepest and most sonorous member of the bra wind division of the orchestra, having a large and long metal tube and five valves: its compa is about four octaves from the fourth A below middle C. It was invented in 1835. - Dilatator tubæ. See dilatator.