washer
/ˈwɒʃə
/noun
1 [usually with modifier] A person or device that washes something: a glass washer...
- It would have included a wide range of facilities, including round-the-clock jet washers, a car wash and garage shop.
- A difference of three feet one way or another may not seem like much when you're deciding where to position a glass washer, but it can add up to hundreds or even thousands of extra steps for bartenders a week.
- Mark looked up from loading the glass washer to see a new face at the bar.
1.1A washing machine: colour TV, automatic washer, fitted kitchen...
- At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of washer, dryer, dishwasher or vacuum.
- And he walked out of the apartment, heading down the hall to the community washer and dryer on this floor.
- Transfer laundry from washer to dryer, start another load.
2A small flat metal, rubber, or plastic ring fixed between two joining surfaces or between a nut and a bolt to spread the pressure or act as a spacer or seal.Does that new faucet have rubber washers or plastic valves?...
- Now you need four sets of four standard round washers (metal or plastic, about 1 inch in diameter or a little less), purchased at any hardware store.
- Anyway, in brief, you use a screw and plastic washer on the back of the motherboard to hold a metal rod and plastic washer in place on the front side - one through each mounting hole.
3Australian A facecloth: I’ll get you a cold washer...
- She uses the damp washer to wipe her face and head to cool her down.
- She added a scoop of Radox, picked up a washer from the end of the bath.
- Gently wipe away all traces of the cleanser with a face washer wrung out in tepid water, rinsing at least twice more in warm water.
Rhymes
- church owl
- church pale
- church papist
- church parade
- church parader
- church parading
- church path
- church pennant
- church people
- church person
- church planting
- church pluralist
- churchquake
- church rate
- church reeve
- church register
- church rent
- church robber
- church-robbing
- church school
- church scot
- church service
- churchset
- church ship
- churchship