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wash-pool
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 pri...
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wallop
▪ I. wallop, n. (ˈwɒləp) Also 5 valop, walop, 6 wallope, 9 wallup, w(h)ollop, etc. [a. ONF. walop (found in 13th c. in pl. walos) = F. galop, related to galoper to gallop: see wallop v. There is nothing to show whether the verb or the n. is the earlier formation in OF. Both were introduced together ...
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wash
▪ I. wash, n. (wɒʃ) Forms: 5 wesche, wesshe, 5–6 was(c)he, 6 wasch, wasshe, wesch, Sc. weische, 7–9 dial. wesh, 7– wash. [f. wash v. in many unconnected applications. OE. had wæsc (sense 2) and ᵹewæsc ‘alluvio’ (sense 6). Cf. OHG. wasga fem. (MHG., early mod.G. wasche), wesga, weska fem. (MHG. wesch...
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