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Tub   /təb/   Listen
Tub

noun
1.
A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body.  Synonyms: bath, bathing tub, bathtub.
2.
A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids.  Synonym: vat.
3.
The amount that a tub will hold.  Synonym: tubful.



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"Tub" Quotes from Famous Books



... corn-meal, very coarsely ground in what was called a tub-mill, gave quite a variety of palatable food. Boiled in water it formed a dish called mush, which when eaten with milk, honey or butter, presented truly a delicious repast for hungry mouths. Mixed with cold water, it was ready to be baked. When covered with hot ...
— Daniel Boone - The Pioneer of Kentucky • John S. C. Abbott

... which, even to her, were novel. "Eh, eh, ma chere," she had said to Miss Scrotton, "beautiful if you will, and very beautiful; but its nails are too much polished, its hair too much ondule. I prefer a porcelain to a marble bath-tub." But the ingenuities of hospitality which the Aspreys—earnest and accomplished millionaires—lavished upon their guests made one, she owned, balmily comfortable. And as she sat now in her soft white draperies under ...
— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... following letter is a successful farmer, remarkable for her executive ability in all the practical affairs of life, as well as for her broad philanthropy. One year she sent, as a contribution to our Washington convention, a tub of butter holding about sixty pounds, which was sold on the platform and the proceeds put into the treasury ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... she led him past the kitchen to a little room which served as scullery and wash-house. A tub full of soapy water stood there, and some dripping linen hung over some wooden bars. ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... they're gone out in a rotten old tub, then?" bellowed he. And the boatman was driven out as quickly ...
— Weird Tales from Northern Seas • Jonas Lie


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