0 a container full of bran (= the outer covering of grain), used in a lucky dip (= a game in which you pay to pick a prize out of a container with many different prizes in it, without being able to see what you are taking):
Attractions include a bouncy slide for youngsters, a bran tub, face painting and pony rides.
It is a wonderfully unpredictable bran tub of a show.
Mr Goff arranged the hoopla, the coconut shy, the bran tub, and the Kill-the-Rat.
They are like children rootling in a bran tub in the hopes of finding a sweetie.
The brain is like a dustbin or, if you prefer, a bran tub. It is full of memories, some real, some imagined.
Hurd describes the Home Office as "a giant bran tub in which were hidden many unrelated packages of work, some big, some small, waiting to be unwrapped and dealt with in turn".
