Crossword clues for handbasin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
handbasin \handbasin\ n. A small basin used for washing thehands; as, `wash-hand basin' is a British term.
Syn: washbasin, washbowl, lavabo, wash-hand basin.
Wiktionary
n. washbasin
WordNet
n. a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression) [syn: washbasin, washbowl, lavabo, wash-hand basin]
Usage examples of "handbasin".
Turkish coppersmith in the quarter and bought first a pan, another time a handbasin and a coffeepot, and again bowls, and coffee cups.
Brusquely shaking off the torpor which was the legacy of her shallow, broken sleep, Rosemary got out of bed and went to the handbasin in the corner to douse herself with cold water.
There was a chair, a magazine rack, a handbasin and a waste-paper basket in the room.
In the bathroom Ram6n flushed the toilet, opened the taps in the handbasin and in the bath, and switched on the shower in the glass-walled cabinet.
Briony said wisely as she went to the handbasin and filled it with hot water.
Like, how many people would have used the shower, or the handbasin since they were installed?
Joe took two posies out of the water in the handbasin and carried them down to his landlady, who beamed all over.
He crossed to the mirror above his handbasin and studied himself critically.
In the bathroom Ramsey flushed the toilet, opened the taps in the handbasin and in the bath, and switched on the shower in the glass-walled cabinet.
The cheap little handbasin, grudgingly put in together with the radiator by the ownership, was polished and shone: no rim of grime around the taps.
She had put her hairpins in the handbasin and, twisting her hair back into its bun, she scrabbled to retrieve the fine black pins, which promptly fell down the gaping open plug-hole and disappeared.
It fell off the wall into the handbasin, and cracked the porcelain of the handbasin before sending large shards of glass from its shattered glass doors onto the bathroom floor.
In bedrooms and bathrooms the linen was spotless and correctly folded, handbasins and baths were dry and shining, toilet seats impeccably scoured and the tops down.
Ramage, always irrationally irritated by Silkin's ability to keep out of sight until the moment he was wanted, began stripping off his clothes and walked through to his sleeping cabin where he knew the handbasin would be precisely two - thirds full of water, with soap, shaving brush, razor freshly stropped, and towel neatly laid out.