Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pounder used to beat or pound clothes in the process of washing.
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Butter wheat, and French barley, as you do rice, but hull your wheat and barley, wet the wheat and beat it in a sack with a wash-beetle, fan it, and being clean hulled, boil it all night on a soft fire very tender.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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