What is "washtub"

Usage examples of "washtub".

He had told her that if she rowed in a washtub across Lake Biwa seven nights in a row, he would give in to her desires.

I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.

To one side of the entrance to the movie theater an old man had a portable barbecue pit made out of a perforated washtub attached to the chassis of a baby carriage.

Another thing is, there are no radios, picture shows, funny papers and if you want to take a bath you got to fill a washtub with water from the well.

There'd been no more interrogations since the day before, no attention from their captors at all save for the arrival several hours before of a squad of silent peasants who replaced full honey buckets and left behind a washtub containing the midday meal: an unsavory mash of rice and chunks of raw fish.

At one point, possibly Wednesday, an entire jug band walked in- jug, washtub bass, washboard, guitar, harmonica and spoons- did a twenty-minute unamplified set, passed the hat, and then disappeared into the night again.

The June sun was still high in the sky, and in the sun-filled court below, a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her middle, was stumping to and fro between a washtub and a clothes line, pegging out a series of square white things which Winston recognized as babies' diapers.

He didn't want to be here under this gray washtub sky, smelling New York exhaust, one hand constantly playing pocket pool with his wallet to make sure it was still there.

We went back to business until every copy of Edward Rinehart's hook had turned into ashes and a few, hall-burned bindings at the bottom of a washtub.

The wooden washtub—which had, in this one day, variously served as a washtub for persons and for soiled costumes, as a thing to be sat upon and as a ring prop for the elephant to perform on—was again right side up and full of river water, and the troupers swashed their dishes and cups around in it before giving them to Magpie Maggie Hag for more thorough scouring with sand.

They smoked dope in the lee of the van, drank wine and canned beer out of a washtub filled with crushed ice, ate bleeding steaks and tossed salads off paper plates, swam out breathlessly into the lake and climbed laughing into their yellow raft, their bodies hard and prickled with cold.

Two fiddles, five-string banjo, washtub bass, and steel-bodied resonator guitar.

Once it had been a banqueting table, the top inlaid with ivory, but the ivory wedges had been pried out and several wooden washtubs sat on the tabletop now.

The buckets of water they fetched from the cistern pumps were icy cold, but hot water scooped from the copper kettle brought the temperature in the washtubs up to lukewarm.

Sinking your hands into the washtubs felt wonderful in the cold, but you always had to take them out again, and then the cold was twice as bitter.