quenching-tub

Updated: May 19, 2025

Then she screamed so loudly that the smith's wife upstairs and her daughter-in-law heard, and they both ran downstairs, and saw the old woman lying in a heap in the quenching-tub, howling and screaming, with her face wrinkled and shrivelled and all out of shape.

Jacob Grimm - Household Tales by Brothers Grimm