launder
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Etymology
Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandena, from Latin lavō (“I wash”).
Pronunciation
Noun
launder (plural launders)
- (obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
- (mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
- A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.
- Synonym: inlayer
- A gutter (for rainwater).
Synonyms
- (washerwoman): launderer, laundress, washerwoman
Translations
washerwoman — see washerwoman
trough used by miners to carry material
gutter for rainwater — see gutter
Verb
launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)
- To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- (obsolete) To lave; to wet.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine
- (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
Derived terms
Translations
to wash and iron
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to disguise the source of
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Related terms
References
- “launder”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “launder”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Noun
launder
- Alternative form of lavender
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