TUBBING

Definition: TUBBING

TUBBING

Noun

1. A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.

2. The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Tub

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "TUBBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

Specialty Definition: TUBBING

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. The watertight cast-iron lining of a circular shaft built up of segments that are fixed together with flanges. The flanges are internal and bolted in German tubbing; they are external in English tubbing, which gives a smooth inner face because the segments are wedged and not bolted. The space outside the tubbing is grouted to add strength and improve watertightness. See also:tub; suspended tubbing b. Eng. A lining of timber or metal for a shaft, as in a mine, esp. a watertight shaft lining consisting of a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together and used to sink through water-bearing strata c. A shaft lining of casks or cylindrical caissons of iron or wood.See also:plank tubbing; wooden tubbing. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: TUBBING

Synonym by domain: shaft lining (mining).

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Crosswords: TUBBING

Specialty definitions using "TUBBING": caisson sinking ♦ Greenwell formula ♦ open-top tubbing ♦ pass pipe ♦ quartering in ♦ silicatization process, strata bolt, suspended tubbing ♦ temporary shaft support, Triger process, tubbing wedge ♦ wooden tubbing. (references)

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Usage Frequency: TUBBING

"TUBBING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TUBBING" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TUBBING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hot tubbing	25
tubbing	6
river salt tubbing	6
car tubbing	5
hot nude tubbing	3
apple river tubbing	3
hot naked tubbing	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TUBBING

Language		Translations for "TUBBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		cuvelage. (various references)

Pig Latin		ubbingtay

Russian		водонепроницаемая крепь. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TUBBING

Derivations
	Words ending with "TUBBING": stubbing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TUBBING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-g-i-n-t-u"
	-1 letter: tubing.
	-3 letters: bint, bung, bunt, ting, tung, unit.
	-4 letters: bib, big, bin, bit, bub, bug, bun, but, gib, gin, git, gnu, gun, gut, nib, nit, nub, nut, tin, tub, tug, tui, tun.
	-5 letters: bi, in, it, nu, ti, un, ut.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-g-i-n-t-u"
	+1 letter: stubbing.
	+3 letters: outbribing.
	+4 letters: bullbaiting.
	+5 letters: blockbusting, boatbuilding, bullbaitings, nightclubbed, nightclubber, obnubilating, outthrobbing.
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