tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭb
ipa: /tʌb/
ipa: /tʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: tubs
Etymology: From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.
Senses: examples: text: He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.
glosses: A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
examples: text: She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
glosses: The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
examples: text: Teach me to love my morning tub, / In waters cold to splash and rub; / O, grant my Turkish towel may flood / Its virtues through my soul and blood.
ref: 1920, Theodore Sharpe, My Place in the Shade: And Various Verse, page 27:
glosses: A bathtub.
examples: text: But, with any ships in the Baltic Fleet that were worth sending - and some that probably weren't worth sending anyway - having already been dispatched, this gave him the perfect excuse to start rounding up old, obsolete vessels which had been rejected in the first place as being old tubs and designated by some of the less-kind officers as the "Sink-by-Themselves Squadron".
ref: 2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 24:52 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A slow-moving craft.
examples: text: All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
examples: text: a tub of gin
glosses: A small cask.
glosses: Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
topics: business
mining
glosses: A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
examples: text: tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth
To the tub-fast and the diet
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
examples: text: Donald tells him to be more realistic. Take those two girls over there, for example. One's a zitface and the other's a tub, so they'd be perfect for them.
ref: 2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic, page 139:
glosses: A corpulent or obese person.
examples: text: Every street or race car McLaren has built since 1981 uses a carbon fiber tub. Now, McLaren will make them in-house.
ref: 2017 February 10, Máté Petrány, McLaren Will Start Building its Own Carbon Fiber Tubs, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2023:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
Derived terms: bathtub
bran tub
cat in the meal-tub
dolly tub
harness tub
hog-tub
hot tub
line tub
powdering tub
rum tub
slack tub
swill-tub
Tap-tub
tubby
tub chair
tub-fast
tub file
tub-gig
tub gurnard
tub of guts
tub of lard
tub-shower
tub-thump
tub-thumping
tub wheel
twin tub