line tub

English

Noun

line tub (plural line tubs)

(nautical) A wooden tub in which the tow-line carried by a whaleboat is coiled.

Translations

whaleboat gear

Hebrew: גִּיגִית חֲבָלִים f (gigít khavalím)

Anagrams

betulin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “line tub”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)