launder
nounEtymology
Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandera, from Latin lavō (“to wash”).
- derived from lavō
- derived from lavandera
- derived from lavandiere
- inherited from lavender
Definitions
A washerwoman or washerman.
A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for…
A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.
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A gutter (for rainwater).
To wash
To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
To lave
To lave; to wet.
- Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine
To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the…
To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
The neighborhood
- neighborlaunderer
- neighborlaunderette
- neighborlaundress
- neighborlaundry
- neighborlave
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at launder. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at launder. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at launder
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA