Had a poke around. The best definition of cold-tubbing I could find refers to it as the immersion of fever victims in cold water to bring their temperature down. You could extrapolate from that to forceful immersion in cold water. And since we are dealing with animals, perhaps London was referring to a sheep-dip? Dunno. I remember wondering about the word when I read Call of the Wild dunnamany years ago.


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