ˈwash-dish
[f. wash v.]
1. dial. = dish-washer 3. [Cf. F. lavandière (Cotgr.).]
| 1825 Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng., Wash-dish, the bird called wagtail. 1862 Johns Brit. Birds 625 Wash-dish and Washerwoman, the Pied Wagtail. 1867 Rock Jim an' Nell cxxv, 'Twas a wash-dish. |
2. A wash-hand basin. U.S.
| 1805 Austin Papers (1924) I. 140, 1 Wash dish. 1839 Mrs. Kirkland New Home iv. 26 After the ‘wash dish’ had been used in turn, and various handkerchiefs had performed..the part of towels. 1857 Quinland I. ii. i. 275 An iron kettle, which I and all the family used as a common wash-dish before breakfast. 1876 Rep. Vermont Board Agric. III. 628 The farmer..was able to furnish a large maple block to set the wash⁓dish on. 1891 M. E. Freeman New England Nun & Other Stories 271 I've got my tin wash-dish there on the bench. |