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A framework upon which laundry is aired; a clotheshorse.
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A clothes storage cupboard built around a house's hot water system, using the heat to dry damp clothes.
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(historical) A type of laundry in which the washing was returned to the customer in a bag, undried and unpressed.
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A device found near the tee of some holes on a golf course, used for cleaning dirt off of one's golf ball.
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Synonym of Belleville washer
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(US) Alternative spelling of blow-dryer [(US, Philippines) An electrical device used for drying hair.]
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(US, Philippines) Alternative spelling of blow-dryer [(US, Philippines) An electrical device used for drying hair.]
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To use the boil wash programme on a washing machine
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Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”) [A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.]
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A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business). (This form is now interpreted as plural and usually spelled without an apostrophe, even in official usage, to justify the removal of the apostrophe. It was traditionally spelled cleaner's with an apostrophe because this is grammatically correct, as can be seen with forms such as go to the doctor's, which cannot be reinterpreted as plural.)
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Laundry (hung on a clothesline).
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Alternative form of clothes dryer. [An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum.]
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An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum.
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A rack for drying clothes.
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A device consisting of two heated panels that can be closed together used to smooth out wrinkles in clothes.
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A rack for drying clothes.
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A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.
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The outdoor area of a house that is used for drying washing
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Synonym of laundromat, launderette (“self-service laundry”); regardless of whether it uses coins or not.
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(laundry) A colored article of clothing.
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fabric conditioner, fabric softener
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A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
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(Britain, naval) The washing of clothes; laundry
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(idiomatic) Unflattering or embarrassing facts, or questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which someone else may use as blackmail.
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(UK) synonym of dirty laundry
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A type of scoop with a lever that dislodges scooped substance.
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(transitive) To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.
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A frame or rack for allowing washed crockery etc to dry naturally.
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A clothing item that can be washed and drip-dried.
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A business establishment that engages in the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics.
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The process of cleaning clothes and other fabrics without using water, instead using solvents and specialized equipment.
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Alternative spelling of dry cleaner [A person whose business is the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics.]
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Alternative spelling of dry cleaning [The process of cleaning clothes and other fabrics without using water, instead using solvents and specialized equipment.]
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A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
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fabric softener in the form of a sheet to be added to clothing in the tumble dryer
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(nonstandard) A clothes dryer.
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An automatic washing machine in which the laundry is placed and retrieved through a (normally transparent) door in the front
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Alternative spelling of hair dryer; alternative spelling of hairdryer [An electric device for drying hair by blowing hot air on it; a blow-dryer.]
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Alternative form of hairdryer [(chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.]
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(British spelling) Alternative form of hand sanitizer [A disinfecting liquid, most often based on ethyl alcohol, used as an alternative to washing the hands with soap and water.]
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(Ireland) An airing cupboard.
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The act of washing laundry in hot water, or the setting on a washing machine for such a wash.
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A mangle, a device used to iron clothes.
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Laundry that has been washed and is ready to be ironed.
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A laundry basket for clean clothes.
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(washroom fixture) Ellipsis of jet hand dryer.
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(obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
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A place that has facilities for washing and drying clothes that the public may pay to use.
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Synonym of launderette (UK)
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(US, Canada, Australia) A self-service laundry facility with (traditionally) coin-operated (which now may use other per-load payment methods) washing machines, dryers, and sometimes ironing or pressing machines, open to the public for washing clothing and household cloth items.
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(rare) The act of using a laundromat.
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A laundering; a washing.
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A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.
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A vertical shaft in a building down which dirty clothes and linens can be dropped, to land in a laundry area on a lower floor.
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(archaic) Originally, a list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered.
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(historical) An identifying marking, usually in coded form and handwritten in indelible ink on an inconspicuous area of a garment, widely used until the mid-20th century as an organizing aid by merchants who cleaned and pressed clothing.
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A very large sink installed in laundry rooms, intended for pre-washing particularly dirty clothes before using the machines.
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Alternative spelling of laundry mark [(historical) An identifying marking, usually in coded form and handwritten in indelible ink on an inconspicuous area of a garment, widely used until the mid-20th century as an organizing aid by merchants who cleaned and pressed clothing.]
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A man who is in the business of laundering.
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To store (clothing, etc.) with sprigs of lavender.
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To dry on a clothesline.
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A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
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(of clothing etc.) A wash in a washing machine
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Alternative spelling of machine wash [(transitive) To wash (clothes) in a washing machine.]
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A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
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A washing machine made by the Maytag company.
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A cycle of a washing machine during which this occurs.
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The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
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A tool using centrifugal force to wash and dry salad
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A machine in which wet clothes are spun in a cylinder full of holes to remove water from them, taking advantage of centrifugal force.
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A smoothing iron that includes a system for spraying steam onto the item being ironed.
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A bathtub made from galvanised iron.
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A washing machine with its door on the top.
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Alternative spelling of tumble dryer [An electrical device that dries clothes in a rotating drum which tumbles the clothes in a flow of hot air.]
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To dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder.
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An electrical device that dries clothes in a rotating drum which tumbles the clothes in a flow of hot air.
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to dry in a tumble dryer
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A revolving stand fitted with projecting pipes on which tumblers are hung to be washed automatically.
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A (mainly obsolete) type of washing machine comprising a vertical washing cylinder alongside a vertical rinsing and spinning cylinder, the clothes having to be manually transferred from one to the other during the wash cycle.
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A room that contains typically washing machine, tumble dryer, and other appliances which, in houses without such a room, would be in the kitchen or laundry.
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Synonym of laundry sink.
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The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
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A basket or container of some kind used to store dirty clothes before they are washed.
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Alternative spelling of washeteria (“a laundromat”) [Synonym of laundromat]
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A day when laundry is washed.
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An machine that combines a washing machine and clothes dryer.
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Alternative form of washeteria (“a laundromat”) [Synonym of laundromat]
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(dated, 1930s) Synonym of laundromat, launderette
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(New Zealand) A room in a house used for laundry; A utility room.
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formerly, a day of the week on which a household’s laundry would be washed and dried; traditionally a Monday in Britain
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A machine, usually automatic, that washes clothes, etc.
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A kit of toiletries and personal washing items; a washbag.
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(US) washing line, clothesline
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A collection of laundry to be washed.
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A tub used for washing clothes.
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A product, such as Windex, used to clean windows.
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(automobiles, US, Canada) a device used to clear rain and dirt from a windshield; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade
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A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung); a mangle.
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