Powdering Tub

When they are upon the spot, they chuse a tree fit to make a pettyaugre, which serves for a salting or powdering-tub in the middle, and is closed at the two ends, where only is left room for a man at each extremity. ❋ -1775 Le Page Du Pratz (N/A)

Of "the monopolers and polers of the people," as he called them, Sir John Culpeper said, "We find them in the dye-fat, the wash-bowl, and the powdering-tub." ❋ Various (N/A)

[170.2] "'We had not parted with him as many minutes as a man may beget his likeness in, but who should we meet but Mountfort the player, looking as pale as a ghost, sailing forward as gently as a caterpillar 'cross a sycamore leaf, gaping for a little air, like a sinner just come out of the powdering-tub, crying out as he crept towards us," O my back! ❋ Unknown (1889)

Every well-to-do family had a "powdering-tub," in which meat was "powdered," that is, salted and pickled. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

It happened that the good wife or mistress at the "Angel Inn" had frequently missed several pieces of meat out of the pail, as they say -- or powdering-tub, as we call it -- and that some were very large pieces. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

As nature demonstrates to us that several dead things retain yet an occult relation to life; wine changes its flavour and complexion in cellars, according to the changes and seasons of the vine from whence it came; and the flesh of -- venison alters its condition in the powdering-tub, and its taste according to the laws of the living flesh of its kind, as it is said. ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)

Inn” had frequently missed several pieces of meat out of the pail, as they say — or powdering-tub, as we call it — and that some were very large pieces. ❋ Unknown (2003)