powdering tubn.
/ˈpaʊd(ə)rɪŋ ˌtʌb/, U.S. /ˈpaʊd(ə)rɪŋ ˌtəb/ Now historical.† 2. In extended use: a sweating-tub used for treating venereal disease. Cf. tub n.1 1b. Obsolete.
1. A tub in which meat, fish, etc., is salted and pickled. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > container for curing meat or fish
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 257/2 Poudryng tubbe, salover.
1534 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 189 Item a powtheringe tubb with a coverynge.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse f. 20v We make our greedie paunches powdring tubs of beefe, and eate more meate at one meale, than the Spaniard or Italian in a month.
1612 in Antiquary Jan. (1906) 29 In the larder... Twoe powdringe Troves with covers, a powdringe Tubbe, twoe lesser tubbes.
1657 East-Hampton Rec. I. 122 Two barrels & one powdering tub.
a1704 T. Brown Contin. Quaker's Serm. in Wks. (1709) III. ii. 4 Sowse us therefore, in the Powdering-Tub of thy Mercy, that we may be Tripes fit for the Heavenly Table.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 36 On Sunday, a piece of salt meat is usually taken out of the powdering tub.
1799 J. Bannister Synopsis of Husb. iv. xix. 444 Those who wish to have a very nice powdering tub of pork, ought to shut their pigs up to fatten at three months old.
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) v. 151 Its gravest discourse has ever a slight savor of hams and powdering-tubs.
1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 444/1 In New England, each family had, after the old English custom, its ‘powdering tub’..in which the pork for the family table was salted.
1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 50 Powderen tub, a tub to hold salt or pickled pork.
1947 E. S. Bowles & D. S. Towle Secrets New Eng. Cooking (2000) vi. 82 The brine of pork barrel and powdering tub, smoke from corncob fires under the smokehouse, and the icy chilliness of winter cold rooms helped to provide a variety of meat dishes for the family table.
1991 L. G. Carr et al. Robert Cole's World iii. 73 Cole had ample salt and a powdering tub for salting down pork and beef.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > sweating-tub
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1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams sig. Aviii Thine vnsauery breath..hath tane to much wynde in the poudryng tubbe.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 73 To the powdering tub of infamy, Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cresides kinde, Doll Tear-sheete.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 150 Whence some Tub-holders-forth have made In Powdring-Tubs, their richest Trade.
1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 83 Pickl'd up to the very Nose in the Powdering-Tub of Sin and Salivation.
1750 M. Clancy Sharper 31 Perils of powdering Tubs.
1777 'Squire Randal's Excursion round London 108 As fair as a sinner newly come out of the powdering-tub.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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