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  1. noun An open, flat-bottomed vessel, usually round and typically wider than it is deep, used for washing, packing, or storing.
  2. noun The amount that such a vessel can hold.
  3. noun The contents of such a vessel.
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  • In the tub was a Goodyear tire and out of its side was escaping a steady stream of greasy bubbles. —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • Getting him into the tub was a major engineering project, and then she had to wait until the cold water revived him enough so that she could be sure he did not drown. —  MacDonald, John D. - Wine of the Dreamers (v1.0) (html)
  • On the down side, the breakfast buffet was occasionally marred by various insects appearing on plates, in milk, or in coffee; and the the tub was a bit small, awkwardly sloped, and rather high up off the floor so one had to step down quite a ways to get out while simultaneously avoiding slipping on the sloping tub wall. —  How Now Brownpau
  • The inner half of the tub is then pushed deeper into the trunk and welded to the truck floor.
  • Footed, sculpted or solid, the tub is the anchor of a room that once was an afterthought. —  theadvertiser.com -
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  1. Middle English, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German tubbe.

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  1. from ME, tubbe, from Middle Dutch D, tobbe =Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, Low German tubbe, a tub; origin unknown. Some suppose, against phonetic probability, a connection with Low German töver =Old High German zubar, Middle High German zuber, zober, German zuber, zober, a vessel, a contracted form of Old High German zwibar, zuipar, a vessel with two handles (cf. Old High German einbar, Middle High German einber, eimber, German eimer, a vessel with one handle); from Low German to, Old High German zwei, zwi-, two, + -bar, connected with English bear (see amber).
  2. from tub, n.
 

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