tub of lard
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5.5
- noun
- /tʌb əv lɑrd/
:
tina de manteca
- Every week, the restaurant receives a tub of lard for frying and cooking various dishes.
Examples
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Why are you so afraid of that pathetic tub of lard?
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But you tell Sandy that if he lays one hand on that tub of lard in there, not to come home.
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Tub of lard.
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Huge tubs of lard.
Fiction book (2001) -
We get a tub of peanut butter, a tub of lard, some flour, powdered milk, and some bulk cheese from the county every two weeks.
Fiction book (2002) -
For the holiday feast, we bought a large tub of lard to use in our baking.
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The recipe called for a tub of lard to create a flaky pastry crust.
Synonyms
52
3.3
Soft white fat from pigs used for cooking and baking
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8.7
A soft, good quality pig fat from around the kidneys that people use in baking
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a container filled with lard' is directly and compositionally derived from 'tub' (a container) + 'lard' (rendered fat) using a standard English noun-of-noun construction; a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer the meaning. This container+substance pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary lexical composition, so it is transparent.
Etymology
The noun tub of lard comes from everyday kitchens: a tub is a big container and lard is animal fat used for cooking, so people saw a large tub full of fat and used the phrase to mean 'a large container filled with lard'.