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Washing machine   /wˈɑʃɪŋ məʃˈin/   Listen
noun
Washing  n.  
1.
The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
2.
The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.
3.
(Mining) Gold dust procured by washing; also, a place where this is done; a washery.
4.
A thin covering or coat; as, a washing of silver.
5.
(Stock Exchanges) The operation of simultaneously buying and selling the same stock for the purpose of manipulating the market. The transaction is fictitious, and is prohibited by stock-exchange rules.
6.
(Pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
Washing bear (Zool.), the raccoon.
Washing bottle (Chem.), a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate upon a filter, etc.
Washing fluid, a liquid used as a cleanser, and consisting usually of alkaline salts resembling soaps in their action.
Washing machine, a machine for washing; specifically, a machine for washing clothes.
Washing soda. (Chem.) See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium.
Washing stuff, any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; so called among gold miners.






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"Washing machine" Quotes from Famous Books



... scraped, are then placed in the washing machine. This machine, run by electric power, is a wide, deep, round-bottomed trough, built in a circle twenty feet in diameter. Along the bottom of this trough, is a moving track, which travels slowly around the circle with its train of metal carriers. On these carriers are placed the dishes ...
— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson

... an improved washing machine, consisting box, A, provided with blocks, H, and roller, E, the hinged frame, B, having rollers, C D, and handle, G, all constructed, arranged and operating as and for the ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... contained in general, I am satisfied, as good chances for profitable return as most occupations, and with time, and a market not overstocked, would finally have paid well. Once only were we caught with the ignis fatuus of genius, a washing machine—patented, of course—that came to an untimely end ...
— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman

... machinery of the institution had its own way with him. It was as though he were passed through each of its scientific appliances in turn—the steam washing machine, the centrifugal steam wringer, the hot-air drying horse, the patent mangle, the gas ovens, the heating pipes, the spray baths, the model bakery, and the central engine. After drifting through the fourth standard he was sent every other day to a workshop to fit him for after life. ...
— Essays in Rebellion • Henry W. Nevinson

... God-dammes," and the American women "Las Camisas-Colorados." If there is anything that a Mexican woman despises it is a red petticoat. They are exceedingly dainty in their underclothing,—wear the finest linen they can afford; and spend half their lives over the washing machine. The men of northern Mexico are far inferior to the women ...
— Building a State in Apache Land • Charles D. Poston



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