tubbingn.
/ˈtʌbɪŋ/ The action of tub v.
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a. †Treatment in the sweating-tub: see tub n.1 1b.
b. Washing or bathing in a tub or bath.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing
bathc1000
baining1528
bathing?1541
balneation1646
tubbinga1845
1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. Ep. to Rdr. sig. a6 Salivation in the Lues or Tubbing is a dotage.
a1845 T. Hood Black Job xiii In spite of all the tubbing, rubbing, scrubbing..The blacks..were as black as ever!
1894 C. W. Boase Registrum Collegii Exoniensis (new ed.) p. clxii The quite modern institution of tubbing in the mornings.
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a. The lining of a pit-shaft or tunnel with a watertight casing: see tub v. 2; concrete the casing of timber, masonry, or metal sections used for this.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > lining of pit-shaft
tunnelling1686
tubbing1839
plank-timbering1881
well tubbing1898
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 969 The pit..must..be sunk through the quicksand by means of tubbing.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 55 At present, tubbing is put in in metal segments.
1855 Orr's Circle Sci., Inorg. Nat. 237 There are several kinds of stopping out water, or tubbing, as it is called... Stone tubbing,..Plank tubbing,..Solid wood tubbing,..and Metal tubbing.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 297 The skilful casing of the shaft with segments of cast-iron—a process called ‘tubbing’.
b. attributive, as tubbing-deal, tubbing-plate, tubbing-wedge.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 973 The tubbing deals..must now be fixed.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Tubbing plates, cast-iron segments forming portion of a ring of tubbing... Tubbing wedges, small wooden wedges of pitch pine..hammered in between the joints of tubbing plates.., thus stopping back every drop of water from the shaft.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 68 Tubbing-deals, deals put behind tubbing in a shaft.
3. Rowing in a ‘tub’; training for a boat-race in a ‘tub’: see tub n.1 3, tub v. 4.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race > training
tubbing1884
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Jan. 10/2 Operations on the Cam commenced yesterday with ‘tubbing’.
1904 Daily News 23 Mar. 11/2 The Dark Blues did some tubbing work first.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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