Tub (unit)
Tub was a unit of capacity or of weight used in Britain and elsewhere.British laws for the sale of goods defined a tub of butter as a receptacle of a size which could contain 84 pounds of butter.Definition
1 tub of butter or cheese = 84 poundsConversion
1 tub = 1.5 FirkinMetric equivalent
1 tub =Other commodities
The Oxford English Dictionary has quotations illustrating other values of a "tub" as a unit:
- Tea : "about 60 pounds"
- "Camphire" : "from 56 to 86 pounds"
- Vermilion : "3 to 4 hundred weight"
- Camphor : "130 Dutch lbs"
In Newfoundland, Canada, a tub of coal was defined as 100 pounds, while a tub of herrings was 16 Imperial gallons and a tub of salt was 18 Imperial gallons.
