tub

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tub/tʌb/

▶noun

• 1 a low, wide, open container with a flat bottom used for holding liquids, growing plants, etc.

  ■ a similar small plastic or cardboard container for food.

  ■ informal a bath.

  ■ Mining a container for conveying ore, coal, etc.

• 2 informal, derogatory a short, broad, and unwieldy boat.

▶verb (tubs, tubbing, tubbed)

• 1 plant or put in a tub.

• 2 Brit. informal have a bath.

– derivatives
tubful noun (pl. tubfuls).

– origin ME: prob. of Low Ger. or Du. origin; cf. Mid. Low Ger., MDu. tubbe.