Noun

(en noun)

A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.

He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.

The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

He added a tub of margarine to the stew.

A bathtub.

(nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.

(humorous, or, derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.

* South

All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs , in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.

A small cask.

a tub of gin

Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).

(mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.

(obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

(Shakespeare)

(slang) A corpulent or obese person.

Lars': You ready to help take down Gizmo?
'''Vault Dweller''': You bet. Let's nail that ' tub . [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/LARS.MSG]

Noun

(en noun)

A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.

(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.

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, author=Douglas Larson , title=Runaway Devils Lake , volume=100, issue=1, page=46 , magazine= citation , passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin' is an endorheic, or closed, ' basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}

(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.