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  • adjective Resembling a tub.

Etymologies

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tub +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Fat financial thrillers, chunky chillers and tublike tinglers ...

    People Reading 2007

  • Fat financial thrillers, chunky chillers and tublike tinglers ...

    A Different Stripe: 2007

  • He looks around the tiny, tublike interior of the airlock, working to suppress his feelings of claustrophobia.

    Orbit John J. Nance 2006

  • He looks around the tiny, tublike interior of the airlock, working to suppress his feelings of claustrophobia.

    Orbit John J. Nance 2006

  • Vessels were on the waterways, bringing cargoes to and from warehouses; moving in and out of repair docks: stout, tublike Netherlands traders; merchantmen from half a dozen countries; and hordes of small craft, the private transport and the ferryboats that carried people about the waterways and across the river.

    QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

  • They were numerous, ranging from lean warships to tublike rowboats.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • The Western World is filled with the names of daring mariners of those old days, who came flitting across the great trackless ocean in their little tublike boats of a few hundred tons burden, partly to explore unknown seas, partly -- largely, perhaps -- in pursuit of Spanish treasure: Frobisher, Davis, Drake, and a score of others.

    Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main 1921

  • The tublike transport lay hissing and whistling in the slip, and the stamping of horses, the rumbling of gun and caisson, and the sharp cries of the officers came plainly to the ear.

    In Search of the Unknown 1899

  • Western World is filled with the names of daring mariners of those old days, who came flitting across the great trackless ocean in their little tublike boats of a few hundred tons burden, partly to explore unknown seas, partly -- largely, perhaps -- in pursuit of Spanish treasure:

    Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882

  • The Western World is filled with the names of daring mariners of those old days, who came flitting across the great trackless ocean in their little tublike boats of a few hundred tons burden, partly to explore unknown seas, partly -- largely, perhaps -- in pursuit of Spanish treasure: Frobisher, Davis, Drake, and a score of others.

    Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Howard Pyle 1882

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