tub

Meanings

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.
• The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
• A bathtub.
• A slow-moving craft.
• 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).
• A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
• A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
• A corpulent or obese person.

Verb

• To plant, set, or store in a tub.
• To bathe in a tub.

Origin

• From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.