different between tub vs puncheon

English

Etymology

From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?b, IPA^(key): /t?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

tub (plural tubs)

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

2. The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

3. A bathtub.
   • 1920, Theodore Sharpe, My Place in the Shade: And Various Verse (page 27)

     Teach me to love my morning tub, / In waters cold to splash and rub; / O, grant my Turkish towel may flood / Its virtues through my soul and blood.

4. (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
5. (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.

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

6. A small cask.

7. Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
8. (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
9. (obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
10. (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
    • 2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic (page 139)

      Donald tells him to be more realistic. Take those two girls over there, for example. One's a zitface and the other's a tub, so they'd be perfect for them.

Derived terms

• bathtub
• hot tub
• powdering tub
• tub-fast
• tubby

Translations

Verb

tub (third-person singular simple present tubs, present participle tubbing, simple past and past participle tubbed)

1. (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To bathe in a tub.
   • February 1, 1873, Meredith Townsend and Richard Holt Hutton (editors), "Change of Air and Scene", in The Spectator

     Don't we all "tub" in England?

References

Further reading

• tub on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BTU, TBU, but, but-

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tup/

Noun

tub m (plural tubs)

1. tube

Related terms

• tubular

Further reading

• “tub” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Juba Arabic

Noun

tub

1. brick

Kavalan

Noun

tub

1. lid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tube, Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tub]

Noun

tub n (plural tuburi)

1. tube

Declension

White Hmong

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?/

Noun

tub

1. son

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)

English

Alternative forms

• punchion

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman ponchon, pounceon et al., and Middle French ponçon, poinchon et al., from Old French ponchon, from Latin p?ncti?nem (“act of piercing”). Doublet of punction.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?nt??n/
• Rhymes: -?nt??n

Noun

puncheon (plural puncheons)

1. A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
2. A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 7:

     he chose to regard [his father] with a lowering and suspicious mien, unless it were in the dead hours of the night, when he developed a morbid craving to be trotted back and forth and up and down the puncheon floor [...].

   1. A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat.
   2. A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
3. A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground, also called duck boards, bog boards, or bog bridge.
4. A short low bridge of similar construction. Also called puncheon bridge.
5. A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 6:

     Once in the Grenada islands, when I and above eight others were pulling a large boat with two puncheons of water in it, a surf struck us, and drove the boat and all in it about half a stone's throw, among some trees, and above the high water mark.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205:

     Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8

     Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion, and dropped it in a baking-tin.

Related terms

• punch