bucking tub

1) A washing tub in which linen, cloth, or clothes more generally, were steeped in a lye of wood ashes. It was an old bleaching process.

1621 A brewing tubb, a flasket, and a boucking tubb, Slaidburn. It was the source of the Lancashire surname Bowker.

places Slaidburn
dates 1621

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