or powdering-tub, subs. phr. (old).—The salivating cradle or pit formerly used in cases of lues venerea; the pickling tub.—GROSE (1785), and HALLIWELL (1847). Also ‘The Pocky Hospital at Kingsland, near London.’—B. E. (c. 1696).

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  1599.  SHAKESPEARE, Henry V., ii. 1.

        No; to the spital go,
And from the POWD’RING-TUB of infamy
Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid’s kind,
Doll Tearsheet.’

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  1611.  CHAPMAN, May-Day, ii. 5. How mean you that? d’ye think I came lately ath’ POWDERING TUB.

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  d. 1704.  T. BROWN, A Comical View of London and Westminster, in Works, i. 182. As fair as a Sinner newly come out of the POWDERING-TUB.

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