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Definition of Bathing tub
1. Noun. A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body.
Group relationships: Bath, Bathroom
Specialized synonyms: Footbath, Hot Tub, Hip Bath, Sitz Bath
Generic synonyms: Vessel
Derivative terms: Bath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathing Tub
Literary usage of Bathing tub
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"5 You must empty out the bathing-tub, but not the baby along with it. Ger. Pr.
You must either be directed by some that take upon them to know, ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"What was the depth of the princess's bathing-tub ? I cannot state precisely the
depth of it ; but I should conceive from two and a ha'f to three feet. ..."
3. The Complete Works of Count Rumford by Benjamin Rumford, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1875)
"should be placed on the platform by the side of the bathing-tub. A pipe should
be prepared for admitting cold water into the bathing-tub from a reservoir ..."
4. The Farmer's Every-day Book; Or, Sketches of Social Life in the Country by John Lauris Blake (1850)
"Here might be the bathing-tub, and the building answer well for both purposes,
neither materially interfering with the other ; the kettle doing the double ..."
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