v.
- wash and iron (clothes or household linen).
- informal transfer (illegally obtained money) to conceal its origins.
n.
- a trough for holding or conveying water, especially (in mining) one used for washing ore.
- a channel for conveying molten metal to a ladle or mould.
Derivative
Etymology
ME (as n. denoting a person who washes linen): contr. of lavender, from OFr. lavandier, based on L. lavanda ‘things to be washed’, from lavare ‘to wash’.