n. n. An open wooden vessel made of staves, held together by hoops, surrounding a bottom: as, a wash-tub; a butter-tub; the tub in which the tow-line is coiled in a whale-boat.n. The contents of a tub; as much as a tub will hold; as a measure of capacity, sometimes erroneously confounded with firkin.n. Any wooden structure shaped like or resembling a tub.n. A clumsy, slow boat or vessel: so called in contempt.n. A boat used for practice-rowing.n. A small cask for holding liquor, especially in the eighteenth century, and before the change in English revenue laws; such a cask in which brandy, gin, or the like was smuggled from the Continent.n. A receptacle for water or other liquid for bathing the person. See bath-tub.n. Hence, the act or process of bathing in a tub; specifically, a sponge-bath taken while standing in a tub.n. Sweating in a heated tub, formerly the common mode of treatment of lues venerea. Compare powderiug-tub, 2.n. In mining:n. A bucket for raising ore from a mine.n. A box, wagon, or tram for conveying coal from the working-face to the pit-bottom or gangway, or for underground haulage in general.n. Same as keeve.n. The top of a malt-kiln.n. The gurnet.To plant or set in a tub: as, to tub plants.To bathe in a tub or bath.In mining, to line (a shaft) with a casing of wood or iron. See tubbing.To bathe or wash the person in a bathing-tub; especially, in colloquial use, to take the morning bath.To row in a tub; practise in a tub. See tub, n.