washer
verbEtymology Unclear. First recorded in the 14th century.
1
To fit (a mechanical device) with a washer.
washer
nounUK /ˈwɒʃə(ɹ)/ · CA, US /ˈwɑʃɚ/
Etymology From Middle English wasshere, wassher, equivalent to wash + -er. Cognate with Dutch wasser, German Wäscher.
1
Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.
- A £1.2 million carriage washer has opened at Norwich Crown Point, enabling Greater Anglia to clean its 58 Stadler trains. It is one of two new washers (the other is for '720s' at Southend), […]2021 January 13, “GA opens new carriage washers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 15:
2
A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.
3
A person who washes their hands compulsively, as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
4
A face cloth.
- Derived terms
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air washer, ball washer, carpet washer, chief cook and bottle washer, chief cook and bottle-washer, clothes washer, dishwasher, dish washer, eye washer, face washer, gas washer, gold-washer, gully washer, gully-washer, gullywasher, head chef and bottle washer, head cook and bottle washer, head cook and bottle-washer, log washer, pressure washer, pressure-washer, smoke-washer, spud washer, sweep-washer, tumbler-washer, washer-dryer, washer-upper, window washer, windscreen washer, windshield washer