▪ I. tubber1
(ˈtʌbə(r))
[f. tub n. or v. + -er1.]
a. One who makes tubs, a cooper. b. One who lives in a tub, a cynic like Diogenes. c. A rowing man who is ‘coached’ in a ‘tub’ (nonce-use). d. One who tubs: see tub v. 1 b.
| 1825 Brockett N.C. Words, Tubber, a cooper, a maker of tubs. 1883 Almondbury & Huddersfield Gloss., Tubber, a cooper. 1891 Blackw. Mag. Mar. 374 A concession to Diogenes and other tubbers. 1894 Sporting Life 28 Feb. 6/2 Shortly after four o'clock tubbing practice was begun... Lewis and Kerrison were the third set of tubbers taken out. |
▪ II. ˈtubber2 local.
[Cf. tubbal, twibill.]
A tool used in Cornish mines: = beele2.
| 1671 Phil. Trans. VI. 2104 The Instruments commonly used in Mines, that serve for ripping the Loads... A Beele or Cornish Tubber (i.e. double points) of 8 l. or 10 l. weight, sharped at both ends, well steeled and holed in the middle. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Tubber-Men are the people who work with this tool,..called in other places beel-men. |