[f. WASH v. Cf. Du. waschtobbe.] A tub in which clothes are washed: = WASHING-tub.

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1602.  Inv., in Collect. Archæol. (1863), II. 111. Fowre boordes, cover of the vate, and a washtubb .xijd.

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1753.  Scots Mag., Sept., 469/1. Indicted for drowning in a wash-tub … her son.

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1838.  Dickens, O. Twist, xxxvii. Glancing distractedly at a couple of old women at the wash-tub.

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