Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of washing linen, etc.

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Examples

  • I have washed, or endeavoured to wash them clean from foreign stupidities -- such a job of buckwashing as I do not long to repeat -- and the world shall now see them in their own shape. "

    On the Choice of Books Thomas Carlyle 1838

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