launder

noun
/ˈlɔːndə/UK/ˈlɑːndə(ɹ)//ˈlɔndɚ/US

Etymology

Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandera, from Latin lavō (“to wash”).

  1. derived from lavō
  2. derived from lavandera
  3. derived from lavandiere
  4. inherited from lavender

Definitions

  1. A washerwoman or washerman.

  2. 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.

  3. A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.

  4. + 5 more definitions
    1. A gutter (for rainwater).

    2. To wash

      To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.

    3. 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
    4. To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.

    5. 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

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.

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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