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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
washer
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 in the faucets that were leaking.
▪ The method of replacing a washer depends on the design of tap.
▪ Always keep spare tap washers handy and replace the washers regularly - no tap should need to be turned off with force.
▪ Sometimes it may be necessary to replace both the washer and the jumper - particularly if they can't be separated.
▪ Except with Supataps, replacing tap washers may mean turning the water off and draining the cistern.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chief cook and bottle washer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Come me little washer lad, come let's away, We're bound down to slavery for fourpence a day.
▪ For recession-weary washers, lower bills may sound just as attractive as greener laundry - as it were.
▪ In another bathroom I replaced the washers in the faucets that were leaking.
▪ Insertinch carriage bolts about 7 inches long to accommodate a washer and a nut on the inside of the beam.
▪ The soft, perished feel of the old washer which rubbed black on your fingers as you took it out of the tap.
▪ This point means that where a motor vehicle is required to be fitted with wipers it must also have washers.
▪ Visibility is important; check the windshield washer reservoir before you start out.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Washer

Washer \Wash"er\, n. [AS. w[ae]scere.]

  1. One who, or that which, washes.

  2. A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.

  3. (Plumbing) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) The common raccoon.

  5. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
washer

"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).

washer

1520s, "person who washes," agent noun from wash (v.). From 1808 as "machine that washes." Washer-woman is from 1630s; earlier wash-woman (1580s).

Wiktionary
washer

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 or prevent leakage. 4 A face cloth.

WordNet
washer
  1. n. someone who washes things for a living

  2. seal consisting of a flat disk placed to prevent leakage

  3. a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically [syn: automatic washer, washing machine]

Wikipedia
Washer (hardware)

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), wear pad, preload indicating device, locking device, and to reduce vibration ( rubber washer). Washers usually have an outer diameter (OD) about twice larger than their inner diameter (ID).

Washers are usually metal or plastic. High-quality bolted joints require hardened steel washers to prevent the loss of pre-load due to Brinelling after the torque is applied.

Rubber or fiber gaskets used in taps (or faucets, or valves) to stop the flow of water are sometimes referred to colloquially as washers; but, while they may look similar, washers and gaskets are usually designed for different functions and made differently.

Washers are also important for preventing galvanic corrosion, particularly by insulating steel screws from aluminium surfaces.

The origin of the word is unknown; the first recorded use of the word was in 1346, however, the first time its definition was recorded was in 1611.

Washer

Washer may refer to:

  • Washing machine
  • Washer (hardware)
  • Washer Method, a mathematical formula for finding volume
  • Washer pitching, an outdoor game

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.