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washer
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Word definitions for washer in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"flat ring for sealing joints or holding nuts," mid-14c., generally considered an agent noun of wash (v.), but the sense connection is difficult, and the noun may derive instead from the ancestor of French vis "screw, vise" (see vise ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher. 2 A person who washes for a living; ''(if female:)'' a washerwoman. 3 A flat disk, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A washer is a thin plate (typically disk-shaped) with a hole (typically in the middle) that is normally used to distribute the load of a threaded fastener , such as a screw or nut . Other uses are as a spacer, spring ( belleville washer , wave washer), ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pressure washer COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB replace ▪ In taps, replacing the tap washer and tightening the gland nut will both contribute to stopping water hammer occurring. ▪ In another bathroom I replaced the washers ...
Usage examples of washer.
The mincers, boners, pluckers, spit-boys and peelers fell on the leftovers like mice, then scattered again under tables, to the hearths, out of the way of the bakers and washers and the disgusted plucker who had to do pots, and who left trails of ash and grease behind her as she hauled dirty pots across the kitchen.
Jesus, by preaching against the traditions of the elders, by not observing the Sabbath day so rigidly as the Pharisees, by denouncing them as hypocrites, tithers of mint anise and cummin, washers of plates and platters, and neglecters of the weightier matters of the law, justice, judgment, and mercy, as serpents, a generation of vipers, whited sepulchres, and what not, had enraged these superstitious fanatics to the last degree.
The second new polymer man got clewed in to Mining and Metallurgy on an emergency job when it was discovered that he had worked summers on a barytes washer in Missouri.
Primitive shelving put up anyhow and anywhere supported paper bags bristling with nails and rinsed-out pickle jars full of nuts and bolts and screws and washers and casters and hinges and springs.
The small pots were filled by those who tended the huge, metal pot, and the slavewomen washers took the wooden pots to the males and very few females who remained in the enclosures.
One of those antishock washers Noguchi was talking about last time he was over .
After turning on the washer with the load of her bedsheets, she went into the office to do a little paperwork.
I mean, I could rent a power washer, buy the paint, a sprayer, dropcloths and stirrers and everything and still wind up spending one-tenth what a housepainter was asking.
Porters 3 Coarse Washers and Ironers 44 Mules 1 Fine ditto 44 Muleteers 7 Cows 2 Milkers Total, 154 men, 51 animals.
He pumped the washers, peering through the smears until his vision was clear.
After resetting the washer to put her filthy clothes through one more sudsing, she sat down at the battered kitchen table and smeared the peanut butter on one slice of bread.
I check again that the setting on both washers is correct and then go out into the hall.
Then we added one pound of iron filings and two cups of assorted washers, nuts, and bolts and stirred the whole mess with a shovel while topping the tank off with water.
The heavier iron bolts, nuts, and washers settled in the coarse trays, sorted by size along with a few heavier pieces of quartz gravel.
Pot washers duck a lot when sharp objects are thrown at them when they make poor Chef mad.