tub
/tʌb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
noun
A bathtub.
noun
Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
Derogatory; Humorous
noun
Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
Example Sentences
- "He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in."
- "She added a tub of margarine to the stew."
- "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."
- "The rest of the evening we had a fine west wind, which carried us on at near five knots an hour, as much as our lumbering old tub can possibly go."
- "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"."
- "All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: tubbe