tub : Idioms & Phrases

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bathing tub

  • noun a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
    bathtub; tub; bath.
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Diogenes' tub

  • the tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him as his house, in which he lived.
Webster 1913

French tub

  • a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; called also plum tub. Ure.
Webster 1913

hot tub

  • noun a very large tub (large enough for more than one bather) filled with hot water
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Leach tub

  • a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.
Webster 1913

Line tub

  • (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled.
Webster 1913

Mashing tub

  • a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; called also mash tun, and mash vat.
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Match tub

  • a tub with a perforated cover for holding slow matches for firing cannon, esp. on board ship. The tub contains a little water in the bottom, for extinguishing sparks from the lighted matches.
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Powdering tub

  • . (a) A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted . (b) A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure . Obs.
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Seasoning tub

  • (Bakery), a trough in which dough is set to rise.
Webster 1913

Tub fast

  • an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. Obs. Shak.
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tub gurnard

  • noun a kind of gurnard
    yellow gurnard; Trigla lucerna.
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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.
Webster 1913

tub-cart

  • noun a cart with an underslung axle and two seats
    ponycart; pony cart; donkey cart.
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tub-thumper

  • noun a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker
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