1839 A. Ure 973 The tubbing deals..must now be fixed.
1883 W. S. Gresley 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 68 Tubbing-deals, deals put behind tubbing in a shaft.