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Container for butter or ice cream

By Mia Russell
•An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.•The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.•Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.•A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.•A small cask; as, a tub of gin.•A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.•To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.•To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.