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单词 washpot
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washpotn.

Brit. /ˈwɒʃpɒt/, U.S. /ˈwɔʃˌpɑt/, /ˈwɑʃˌpɑt/
Etymology: < wash v.
1. A servant employed to wash pots; spec. the designation of a servant employed at the Inns of Court. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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