Tub

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TUB, sb. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. and Eng. Also
in form toob Cor. [tub, tɐb.] 1. sb. In comp. (1) Tub-butter,
butter put away, in salt, in summer, in tubs, to
keep for winter consumption; (2) Tub-garth, the hoop round
a tub; (3) Tub-lag(g or Tub-leg, the stave of a barrel; one of the
wooden sections of which a tub is composed; (4) Tub-thumper,
(a) a cooper; a barrel-maker; (b) an energetic preacher;
a ranting or ‘stump’ orator.
(1) w.Yks. (J.W.), War.3 (2) w.Yks. Ah've brokk'n a lot o'
tub-garths up fer kinlin' (Æ.B.); Leeds Merc. Suppl. (June 24,
1899). (3) w.Yks. If they'd ony sooart ov a owd tub-lagg, or a
piece of a barrel bottom, they browt it to get mended into a new
tub, Hartley Ditt. (1868) 1st S. 98. (4, a) w.Yks.2, s.Lan.1,
Chs.1 n.Lin.1 The tub-thumper, who lives beside the Unicorn,
has been thrashing his wife. (b) Nhb. Talking like common tub-thumpers,
and living like the immortal gods! Graham Red Scaur
(1896) 224. s.Lan.1, Chs.1
2. A keg or cask containing four gallons of spirit, the
ordinary term used by smugglers.
Sus. This cottage... has... been as full of tubs from top to
bottom as ever it could hold, Egerton Flk. and Ways (1884) 65.
Hmp.1 Dev. If a man cude git they tubs, twid be a rare good
strauk, Norway Parson Peter (1900) 107. Cor. They do say that
the boatsmen [coastguards] are informed about the toobs, Ballantyne
Deep Down (1868) 180.
Hence Tub-holes, sb. pl., obs., holes under the floor
where smugglers' casks were concealed.
Sus. It is a great comfort to be able now to go into cottages
without the thought that possibly tub-holes are concealed under
our feet, Egerton Flks. and Ways (1884) 66.
3. Fig. The stomach, belly; esp. a big stomach.
w.Yks. That barn o' yahrs hes a rare tub; it can side some stuff
into 't, Leeds Merc. Suppl. (June 24, 1899). s.Lan.1 Bless thi owd
tub, aw wish aw could ate loike thee. Wor. (W.B.)
Hence (1) Tubby, (a) adj. round-bellied; (b) sb. a fat
person; (2) Tub-guts, sb. pl. a pot-bellied person.
(1, a) Chs.1, Oxf. (G.O.) (b) Wor. (W.B.) (2) Chs.1 s.Chs.1
Sich a tub-guts of a fellow.
4. A salt-making term: a square wooden box, gen. from
18 to 20 ins. long and 6 to 8 ins. square, in which fine salt
is moulded before drying. Chs.1 5. A cask, cut in two,
for dyeing a certain weight of material. w.Yks. (R.S.)
6. A mining term: a wagon used for bringing the mineral
from the face to the surface of the pit.
Nhb.1 Originally a mining bucket, now specially applied to the
open-topped box of wood or iron, mounted on wheels, in which
coal is brought from the face to the surface. It has supplanted
the old ‘corf,’ which was a basket carried on a tram. The tram
and tub are now, in most cases, a single structure. The tub,
containing twenty-four pecks, has an inside measurement of three
feet in length, thirty inches in width, and twenty-six in depth.
Dur. (J.J.B.), e.Dur.1, n.Yks. (C.V.C.)
Hence Tub-loaders, sb. pl. hewers, who hew and fill the
empty tubs at times when the pit is not drawing coal.
Nhb.1 7. Obs. See below; also in comp. Tub-gig.
Cum.4 I once had a seat in a tub-gig. Wm. Rawnsley Remin.
(1884) in Wordsworth Soc. Trans. VI. 191. Not. At the time
when the railway between Nottingham and Grantham was opened,
.. the lowest class,.. third or fourth, were... like cattle-trucks
are now, and were known... as ‘tubs,’ N. & Q. (1890) 7th S. x.
470. Nrf. A small carriage for four, somewhat tublike; nearly
square, but with rounded corners. Two people sit on each side,
all looking inwards; so that the driver sits nearly sideways
(W.W.S.).
8. The top of a malt-kiln. Ess. (Hall.); Gl. (1851);
Ess.1 9. The gurnard, esp. the sapphirine gurnard,
Trigla hirundo. Also in comp. Tub-fish.
Cum. Hutchinson Hist. Cum. (1794) I. App. 38. w.Som.1
Always so called along the coast of the Severn Sea. Som., Dev.
Always so called on the coast of the Bristol Channel, Reports
Provinc. (1882) 23. Cor. It is also common round our coast gen.,
but particularly from West Bay to the Land's End, where the
gurnards are called tubs, tub-fish, and in reference to colour, red
tubs, Yarrell Fishes (1836) I. 42, in N. & Q. (1868) 4th S. ii.
357; Cor.1 Cor.2
10. A small quantity. s.Wor. (H.K.) 11. v. A mining
term: to hold or keep back water in a pit by means of a
wood or metal casing or lining.
e.Lth. The Coal Company offered to ‘tub’ or line the faulty pit
with iron plates at their own expense, Sands Tranent (1881) 17.
Nhb., Dur. Two wedging cribs are laid to carry and tub off the
water, Borings (1881) II. 303. w.Yks. (T.T.)
Hence Tubbing, sb. the circular water-tight casing by
which the water is ‘tubbed’ or held back in the waterbearing
strata cut through in sinking.
Nhb.1 Nhb., Dur. It was formerly put in with planks, properly
dressed at the joints to the sweep of the pit, and kept in their
places by being spiked to cribs behind them. Tubbing was also
constructed of cribs of oak built one upon the other the required
height and afterwards wedged. Metal segments, cast to the sweep
of the pit, are now used in tubbing, Greenwell Coal Tr. Gl.
(1849). w.Yks. (B.K.)

Source : Glossary of Provincial words used in the county of Essex.

Source : A Glossary of the Essex Dialect. RICHARD STEPHEN CHARNOCK . 1880.