[f. TUB sb. or v. + -ER1.] a. One who makes tubs, a cooper. b. One who lives in a tub, a cynic like Diogenes. c. A rowing man who is ‘coached’ in a ‘tub’ (nonce-use). d. One who tubs: see TUB v. 1 b.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Words, Tubber, a cooper, a maker of tubs.
1883. Almondbury & Huddersfield Gloss., Tubber, a cooper.
1891. Blackw. Mag., March, 374. A concession to Diogenes and other tubbers.
1894. Sporting Life, 28 Feb., 6/2. Shortly after four o’clock tubbing practice was begun…. Lewis and Kerrison were the third set of tubbers taken out.
