Word Meanings - DISHCLOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cloth used for washing dishes.

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• WASHHOUSE
  An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• WASHSTAND
  A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
• WASHY
  1. Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton. 2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
• WASHED SALE
  See SALE
• WASHINESS
  The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.
• WASHING
  1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. 2. The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. Washing bear , the raccoon. -- Washing bottle , a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• WASHER
  A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, washes. 2. A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various
• WASHOE PROCESS
  The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
• WASH STAND
  In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off.
• CLOTHING
  See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing
• WASHERMAN
  A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
• WASHINGTONIAN
  A member of the Washingtonian Society. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on
• WASHDISH
  See 2 (more info) 1. A washbowl.
• WASHTUB
  A tub in which clothes are washed.
• WASHBOWL
  A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• AWASH
  Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• SWASHING
  1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak. 2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• SADDLECLOTH
  A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
• GUNNY; GUNNY CLOTH
  A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for