noun

• A washtub.

  ‘My mother washed all our clothes at home, in the copper boiler, or in a dolly tub complete with scrubbing board.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Most of the room was taken up by a large pair of wooden mangles and a dolly tub.’
  • ‘Cauliflowers, onions, potatoes, radishes and lettuces can be found growing from old pig troughs and dolly tubs.’
  • ‘The allusion is to dolly-pegs and a dolly-tub, used for washing.’