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Washtub

noun

A tub in which clothes or linens can be washed.

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"Washtub" Quotes from Famous Books

... though of course he only touched the man's cheek with his cold, damp nose, just as, sometimes, your dog puts his nose against your cheek to show how much he likes you; next Nero stood up on a sort of upside-down washtub, or pedestal; and after that he jumped through a hoop ...

— Nero, the Circus Lion - His Many Adventures • Richard Barnum

... to remind Jane of the offending Pattie in words. Tom's face had done that already, and she was meditating vengeance. She and Jim and the baby reached their own home at midnight on Easter Monday, and by nine o'clock on the Tuesday morning she was at the weekly washtub which she superintended in Old Keston, her arms immersed in soap suds, her eyes on the garden fence which cut ...

— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh

... pretty hard there, but it served her right. She got as good as she gave. She looked at me and went all colours, and then she went back to her washtub. ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... the next page, if the washtub doesn't fall out of its crib and knock a hole in the tea kettle so that all the lemonade runs out, I'll tell you ...

— Curly and Floppy Twistytail - The Funny Piggie Boys • Howard R. Garis

... Jobson. "A washtub'll do. Me and Bert'll 'ave a washtub each brought up overnight; and it'll be exercise for the gals bringing the water up of a ...

— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs

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