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单词 match tub
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match tub
match tub n. Obsolete a tub with a perforated cover, in which slow matches are hung with the lighted end downwards, ready for use, on warships (the bottom of the tub would often contain water, to quench sparks).
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1794 A. Thomas Newfoundland Jrnl. (1968) iii. 40 The saucepan floated, and poising itself,..rested..on the topsy turvey end of a match Tub.
1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. 97 While the rest are washing decks..the quarter gunners clean the match tubs, shot boxes, gun carriages and guns.
1841 Southern Literary Messenger Apr. 284/1 We can readily imagine how and old ‘Salt’..seated upon a ‘Match Tub’..would chuckle over its humor.
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