tub
/tʌb/ sustantivo B2En español: cuba, tina
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in. · He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel. · She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
- 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. · a tub of gin
- 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.
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He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done.
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