a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids the amount that a tub will hold; "a tub of water
a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, used for various purposes
A tub is a deep container of any size. He peeled the paper top off a little white tub and poured the cream into his coffee A tub of something is the amount of it contained in a tub. She would eat four tubs of ice cream in one sitting
{i} bathtub; bowl, basin; object resembling a basin; volume that can be held by a tub; old or slow boat; band on a mast for attaching certain nautical equipment (Nautical); short and fat person (Slang)