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Definition of Tublike
1. resembling a tub [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tublike
Literary usage of Tublike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. North American Indians, Volume I by George Catlin (2000)
"Others are paddling about in their tublike canoes, made of the skins of buffaloes;
and every now and then, are to be seen their ..."
2. The Pilgrim Fathers: Or, The Founders of New England in the Reign of James by William Henry Bartlett (1853)
"In their build, though very picturesque, they were tublike and clumsy—the shape
of the hull being very broad-bottomed and capacious, while the lofty cabins, ..."
3. Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies (1883)
"canoes, solitary scullers in outriggers, once now and then a swift eight, launches,
a bargee in a tublike dingy standing up and pushing his sculls instead ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1902)
"Yet the good man of the house, fat and tublike in shape, prattled on (and I paused
to admire a wonderful staircase of old oak, finer carved than any I have ..."
5. Mysterious India: Its Rajahs--its Brahmans--its Fakirs by Robert Chauvelot (1921)
"... charm of a good bath in a bath-tub after the too truly tublike tub of India!
And the delight of a drive in a real carriage along a clean, level highway, ..."
6. 14,000 Miles Through the Air by Ross Macpherson Smith (1922)
"... covered with innumerable little round dots, which on closer investigation
resolve themselves into circular tublike boats—all this is Bagdad, ..."
7. Land and Labour in a Deccan Village by Harold Hart Mann, Dattatraya Lakshman Sahasrabuddhe, Narayan Vinayak Kanitkar, Vinayak Atmaram Tamhane (1917)
"... hundred and forty feet, the river being forty feet wide, there are eighty-seven
potholes varying in size from small cavities to large tublike hollows. ..."
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