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noun

Laver n.

A vessel for washing; a large basin.

(Script. Hist.)

(a)

A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.

(b)

One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.

That which washes or cleanses.

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Etymology of 'Laver'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Laver" Quotes from Famous Books

... leading-staff, or truncheon, to the background, where, in such perspective as the artist possessed, were depicted the remains of a burning church, or monastery, and four or five soldiers, in red cassocks, bearing away in triumph what seemed a brazen font or laver. Above their heads might be traced in scroll, "Lee Victor sic voluit." Right opposite to the picture, hung, in a niche in the wall, a complete set of tilting armour, the black and gold colours, and ornaments of ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

... He conned his map, and made out the names. The peninsula was called the Cruives—an old name apparently, for it was in antique lettering. He vaguely remembered that "cruives" had something to do with fishing, doubtless in the two streams which flanked it. One he had already crossed, the Laver, a clear tumbling water springing from green hills; the other, the Garple, descended from the rougher mountains to the south. The hidden village bore the name of Dalquharter, and the uncouth syllables ...

— Huntingtower • John Buchan

Words linked to "Laver" : red laver, Old Testament, Porphyra, Rod Laver, chlorophyte, basin, green algae, sea lettuce, red algae, Ulva, tennis player, genus Ulva, Rodney George Laver, genus Porphyra