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  • noun archaic a tub in which the meat was powdered or salted; a salting tub, pickling tub or powdering trough.
  • noun obsolete A heated tub for the treatment of venereal disease by sweating.
  • noun obsolete (slang) the pocky Hospital at Kingsland near London.

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  • 1. A tub in which meat, fish, etc., is salted and pickled. Also figurative.

    2. In extended use: a sweating-tub used for treating venereal disease.

    Usage: 1777, Squire Randal's Excursion, p. 108 "As fair as a sinner newly come out of the powdering-tub."

    February 13, 2007