English

Noun

autem quaver tub ‎(plural autem quaver tubs)

1. (archaic, Britain, cant) A Quaker meetinghouse.

Related terms

• autem cackle tub ‎(“generic Dissenter's meeting house”)

References

• Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
• Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 1, page 54
• Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 1, pages 81–82