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Meanings of tubful in English

The amount that a tub will hold.

Usage of tubful in English
1
In the wool-shop, forty men have one tubful of warm water once a-week.
Diary in America, Series One
2
The old woman got a tubful of warm water to wash the baby.
My Antonia
3
I ran a deep, hot, tubful of water, and slowly undressed.
The Pariah
4
He thought of Levin carving at the tubful of buzzard guts.
The flock
5
Those times, I'd been sitting in a tubful of water.
Savage
6
For what Molly and her father ate was hardly to be counted in the tubful.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales
7
I walked, somewhat gingerly, into the bathroom to soak in a tubful of hot water.
Living dead in dallas
8
If you have a room with bath, dive into a blistering hot tubful and relax.
I Married a Ranger
9
In sitch a enormous tubful o' lobsters, etceterer, it's a wonder we've met at all.
Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
10
But what have you done with that tubful?
The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)
11
That it probably wouldn't have made the slightest difference if he'd had a tubful of those nitroglycerin pills.
The sailcloth shroud
12
They had a tubful of water and they washed them dried them and put on their clean clothes.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
13
God knows it's pathetic enough to think of a girl like you bending over a tubful of clothes.
Buttered Side Down: Stories
14
At hand was a tubful of plaster, a trowel, and ladder which I thought long enough for my purpose.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
15
For one I slay, you slay a score; and for one spoonful of blood I draw, you spill a tubful.
The Cloister and the Hearth
16
So I was mighty glad to be in a tubful of hot water, even if it was sort of boiling me.
Savage
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