TUB

bathtub, bathing tub, tub

(noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

tub, vat

(noun) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

tub, tubful

(noun) the amount that a tub will hold; “a tub of water”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

tub (plural tubs)

A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.

The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

A bathtub.

(nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.

(humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.

A small cask.

Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).

(mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.

(obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

(slang) A corpulent or obese person.

Verb

tub (third-person singular simple present tubs, present participle tubbing, simple past and past participle tubbed)

(transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.

(ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.

Anagrams

• BTU, TBU, but, but-

Source: Wiktionary

Tub, n. Etym: [OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.]

1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.

2. The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.

3. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South.

4. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] Shak.

5. A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

6. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] Shak.

– Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder.

Tub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tubbing.]

Definition: To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.

Tub, i.

Definition: To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. [Colloq.] Don't we all tub in England London Spectator.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition