ˈwash-pool
[f. wash v.]
A pool for washing sheep.
| 1827 Clare Sheph. Cal. 56 He drives the bleating sheep from fallow fold To wash-pools. 1873 Trollope Australia I. 471 The Australian wool-grower..will take you to his washpool. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xvii, The brush yard at the equally primitive washpool. |