tubbing, vbl. n.
(ˈtʌbɪŋ)
[f. tub v. (or n.) + -ing1.]
The action of tub v.
1. a. † Treatment in the sweating-tub: see tub n. 1 b. b. Washing or bathing in a tub or bath.
| 1657 G. Starkey Nature's Explic. To Rdr. 9 Salivation in the Lues or Tubbing is a dotage. a 1845 Hood Black Job xiii, In spite of all the tubbing, rubbing, scrubbing..The blacks..were as black as ever! 1894 Boase Exeter Coll. (O.H.S.) p. clxii, The quite modern institution of tubbing in the mornings. |
2. The lining of a pit-shaft or tunnel with a watertight casing: see tub v. 2; concr. the casing of timber, masonry, or metal sections used for this.
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 969 The pit..must..be sunk through the quicksand by means of tubbing. 1851 Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh. 55 At present, tubbing is put in in metal segments. 1855 Orr's Circ. Sc., Inorg. Nat. 237 There are several kinds of stopping out water, or tubbing, as it is called... Stone tubbing,..Plank tubbing,..Solid wood tubbing,..and Metal tubbing. 1862 Smiles Engineers III. 297 The skilful casing of the shaft with segments of cast-iron—a process called ‘tubbing’. |
b. attrib., as tubbing-deal, tubbing-plate, tubbing-wedge.
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 973 The tubbing deals..must now be fixed. 1883 Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining, Tubbing plates, cast-iron segments forming portion of a ring of tubbing... Tubbing wedges, small wooden wedges of pitch pine..hammered in between the joints of tubbing plates.., thus stopping back every drop of water from the shaft. 1886 J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 68 Tubbing-deals, deals put behind tubbing in a shaft. |
3. Rowing in a ‘tub’; training for a boat-race in a ‘tub’: see tub n. 3, v. 4.
| 1884 Pall Mall G. 11 Jan. 10/2 Operations on the Cam commenced yesterday with ‘tubbing’. 1904 Daily News 23 Mar. 11/2 The Dark Blues did some tubbing work first. |