ˈpowdering-ˌtub
[f. prec. vbl. n. + tub.]
1. A tub in which the flesh of animals is ‘powdered’, or salted and pickled.
| 1530 Palsgr. 257/2 Poudryng tubbe, salover. 1534 in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 189 Item a powtheringe tubb with a coverynge. 1612 [see powdering trough]. 1756 Nugent Gr. Tour, Netherl. I. 44 On Sunday, a piece of salt meat is usually taken out of the powdering tub. 1841–4 Emerson Ess., Love Wks. (Bohn) I. 77 Its gravest discourse has a savour of hams and powdering-tubs. |
† 2. Humorously applied to a sweating-tub used for the cure of venereal disease. Obs.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, ii. i. 79 From the Poudring tub of infamy, Fetch forth the Lazar Kite of Cressids kinde, Doll Teare-sheete. 1678 Butler Hud. iii. ii. 980 Whence some Tub-holders-forth have made In Powdring-Tubs, their richest Trade. 1709 O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2) 83 Pickl'd up to the very Nose in the Powdering-Tub of Sin and Salivation. 1710 Brit. Apollo II. No. 90. 2/2 Away to the Powdering-Tub and burnt Mutton. |