A large wooden or metal tub used in pre-machine laundry, paired with a 'dolly'—a T-shaped or three-legged wooden agitator plunged up and down to move clothes through soapy water.
A large wooden or metal tub used in pre-machine laundry, paired with a 'dolly'—a T-shaped or three-legged wooden agitator plunged up and down to move clothes through soapy water. Common in British working-class households from the 18th century until the spread of electric washing machines in the mid-20th century.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, obsolete) A sweetshop furnished with the gambling device called a dolly.
(slang, British) An amateur, often part-time, female prostitute in 19th-century London.
(chiefly, US) A large tub, often situated outdoors, filled with hot water and used for communal leisure bathing.
(UK, obsolete) An unlicensed pawnshop where rags, old junk, and like items are bought and sold.
Gran remembered doing the Monday wash in the dolly tub out in the yard, her arms aching from pounding the sheets.
(UK, regional) A wash tub.