washtub

noun

1. （旧时的）洗衣盆
   (in the past) a large metal container for washing clothes, etc. in

1. There was a long, rolling clang, as though the washtub had been flung across the yard, and then a confusion of angry shouts which ended in a yell of pain.
   有一阵什么东西滚过的声音，好像洗衣盆给推过了院子，接着是愤怒的喊声，最后是痛苦的尖叫。
2. For the clothes and bedclothes to come out so clean, they had to be scrubbed thoroughly in a washtub, rinsed with washing soda, soaked, boiled in an enormous pot, starched, then ironed.
   洗出来的衣物若像她洗得那样干净必须放进洗衣盆里使劲刷，再用碱水浸泡，然后放入大锅中煮，接着再熨烫。
3. Let's go swim in mama's washtub.
   我们在妈妈的洗衣盆里游泳吧。
4. Those are the ones I saw my great-uncle Carl grow, pouring water from a washtub into the soil around the melons and watching the stalks suck it up like a vacuum cleaner.
   我看到卡尔姨丈种的正是这一品种的西瓜。他用洗衣盆把水浇到沙地上的西瓜周围，一边看着瓜秧像台吸尘器一般把水吸了进去。
5. Down in the yard the red-armed woman was still marching to and fro between the washtub and the line.
   院子里那红胳膊女人，还是在洗衣盆跟晾衣绳之间忙来忙去。

noun

1. a tub in which clothes or linens can be washed