Word Meanings - LAUNDERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

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• IRONBARK TREE
  The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood.
• IRONIC
  Ironical. Sir T. Herbert.
• IRONIST
  One who uses irony.
• IRONWOOD
  A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum, and several other unrelated
• WASHHOUSE
  An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
• IRONWEED
  A tall weed with purplish flowers . The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• IRONISH
  Resembling iron, as in taste. Wood.
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
• WASHSTAND
  A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
• IRON-SIDED
  Having iron sides, or very firm sides.
• IRONMONGER
  A dealer in iron or hardware.
• IRON-CASED
  Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.
• IRONWORT
  An herb of the Mint family , supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.
• WASHY
  1. Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton. 2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
• WASHED SALE
  See SALE
• IRONER
  One who, or that which, irons.
• WASHINESS
  The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.
• WASHING
  1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. 2. The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. Washing bear , the raccoon. -- Washing bottle , a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• AWASH
  Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
• CAST-IRON
  Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• T IRON
  See T
• LOFTING IRON
  See LOFTER
• BAR IRON
  See IRON
• SWASHING
  1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak. 2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.
• COBIRON
  An andiron with a knob at the top. Bacon.
• TIRONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.