单词 | washpot |
释义 | washpotn.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant squiller1303 waynpainc1330 kitchener1332 custronc1400 kitchen knave1440 scullion1483 scudler1488 swiller?a1500 dishwashera1529 lubber1538 kitchen maid1551 kitchen wencha1556 scull1566 washpot1570 kitchen stuff1582 scrape-trencher1603 kitchenist?1617 trencher-scraper1650 mediastine1658 drudge-pudding1737 marmiton1754 knife-boy1847 potwalloper1859 kitchen mechanic1861 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant minstrel?c1225 mill-knavec1380 subdeacona1382 rehetoura1425 daily waiter1519 apparitor1533 Nethinim1535 fealc1650 washpot1678 Sunday outer1837 comprador1840 liveryman1841 running dog1969 1570 in W. P. Baildon Black Bks. (Rec. Soc. Lincoln's Inn) (1897) I. 373 10 s. to Ralph Richardson, the washpot in the buttery, for 6 months' wages. 1645 in Black Bks. Linc. Inn (1897) II. 367 The Washpot 20s., the Laundress £4, [etc.]. 1678 E. Ravenscroft Eng. Lawyer ii. i. 15 I was an under-Butler, or Wash-pot in the Inns of Court. 1816 Temple Ch. Reg. Burials Thomas Lock Washpot of the honble Society of the Inner Temple. 2. A vessel for washing one's hands. Obsolete exc. figurative in allusion to Psalm lx. 8. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > washing the hands > vessel for washing the hands (and face) washela1375 laverc1394 washing-bowl1530 washpot1535 washing-basin1538 cistern1577 lavacre1657 lavatorya1676 chillumchee1715 wash-hand basin1760 wash-dish1805 washbasin1812 wash-bowl1816 chamber set1824 toilet bowl1850 wash-pan1851 lavatory basin1854 wash sink1857 lavatory bowl1872 wash-trough1902 pedestal basin1967 pedestal washbasin1967 vanity basin1972 w.h.b.1975 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lx. 8 Moab is my washpotte, ouer Edom wil I stretch out my shue. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 53 in Poems Sev'en comely blooming Youths..in their hands sev'en silver washpots bear. 1810 W. Scott Let. 3 July (1932) II. 356 In an age when every London citizen makes Loch Lomond his washpot, and throws his shoe over Ben-Nevis. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism viii. 84 He had to fly, with broken washpots. 1884 Daily News 5 Feb. 3/1 French philosophers were using it [China] as a washpot for their satires on institutions nearer home. 3. A vessel containing melted tin, into which iron plates are plunged to be converted into tin-plate. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > plating equipment pan1839 washpot1839 plating bath1866 trough1877 branner1902 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1253 at Tin-plate. 4. A vessel used in separating silver from lead. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > vessels crossletc1386 testc1386 cruciblea1475 spoon1496 melting pot1545 cruset1558 fining pot1560 hooker1594 cupel1605 crusoile1613 crisol1622 melt pot1637 muffle1644 crevet1658 coffin1686 sand-pot1758 Hessian crucible1807 pan1839 shank1843 casting-pot1846 king pot1862 converter1867 washpot1879 1879 G. Gladstone Mining, Silver in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 112/2 It is usual to have small pots, called temper or wash-pots, placed between every second crystallising pot. 5. A vessel in which to wash clothes over a fire; a wash-boiler. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > vessel for washing clothes in wash-bowla1529 buck1530 boyne1532 washing-tub1560 wash-tub1602 bucking-tub1615 buck-vat1620 washing-bowl1622 swill1624 possing tub1659 suds-tub1805 bucking-vat1822 bucking-keir1823 peggy tub1823 poss-tub1829 pounding barrel1853 posskit1855 wash-boiler1875 washpot1926 1926 B. Isbell in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 105 At a later dance a large wash-pot of coffee, surrounded with ample tin cups, was kept boiling under a live oak tree in the yard. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. 12 The women surrounded by laden clotheslines and tubs and blackened wash pots. 1944 T. D. Clark Pills, Petticoats & Plows xviii. 330 The devil had him imprisoned under an upturned washpot. 1952 F. O'Connor Wise Blood iii. 62 His mother was standing by the washpot in the yard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1535 |
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