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noun

Washer n.

One who, or that which, washes.

A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.

(Plumbing) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.

(Zool.) The common raccoon.

(Zool.) Same as Washerwoman, 2. (Prov. Eng.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Washer" Quotes from Famous Books

... all uv um what is out uv wash; and them gwine. The buttons is shackledy on all uv um, too. I wish I wuz a washer; then you wouldn't have to give yo' clothes out to these triflin' huzzies whar rams a iron over yo' things like they wuz made ...

— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden

... will ever get justice by woman's ballot. Indeed, women oppress women as much as men do. Do not women, as much as men, beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? Are not women as sharp as men on washer-women and milliners and mantua-makers? If a woman asks a dollar for her work, does not her female employer ask her if she will not take ninety cents? You say, "Only ten cents difference." But that ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... lovely UNREAL view of the bold rocks and baby-house forts on them! Ship close in. Washer-woman come ...

— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon

... all the writing that followed. I had no doubt at all but that "Pharais" was written by a woman, but "The Dan-nan-Ron" and "Silk o' the Kine" in "The Sin-Eater" (1895) seemed to me hardly a woman's. "The Washer of the Ford" (1896) was written from the man's point of view, too, but "Green Fire" (1896) seemed feminine again. So I wobbled in my opinion until "The Divine Adventure" (1900) and the critical writings of the volume that story gives ...

— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt

... chap. Are you trying to make fun of me? Is this a joke? I don't want a walrus, thirty years old, with ragbag clothes that fit her a foot off. She has a gait like an ice wagon. Why, she couldn't get a job as window-washer in the street ...

— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry

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