tub

He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.

She added a tub of margarine to the stew.

Teach me to love my morning tub, / In waters cold to splash and rub; / O, grant my Turkish towel may flood / Its virtues through my soul and blood.

But, with any ships in the Baltic Fleet that were worth sending - and some that probably weren't worth sending anyway - having already been dispatched, this gave him the perfect excuse to start rounding up old, obsolete vessels which had been rejected in the first place as being old tubs and designated by some of the less-kind officers as the "Sink-by-Themselves Squadron".

All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.

a tub of gin

tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth

To the tub-fast and the diet

Donald tells him to be more realistic. Take those two girls over there, for example. One's a zitface and the other's a tub, so they'd be perfect for them.