tub Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Tub noun
Etymology
OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.
Definitions
  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 transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Tubbed ; present participle & verbal noun Tubbing
Definitions
  1. To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
Tub intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913