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Launders

A washerwoman or washerman.

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noun
  1. 1

    A washerwoman or washerman.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.

  4. 4

    A gutter (for rainwater).

verb
  1. 1

    To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.

  2. 2

    To lave; to wet.

  3. 3

    (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.

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washverb(transitive) To clean with water.
smugglesverb(transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
extortsverb(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
embezzlesverb(law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
confiscatesverb(transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
collectsverb(transitive) To gather together; amass.
siphonsnounA bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another.
pilfersan American ska band formed in 1997, when former Toasters vocalist, Coolie Ranx, at the urging of Pietaster's vocalist Steve Jackson, joined with former Bim Skala Bim trombonist, Vinny Nobile.
black marketeeringnounThe practice of selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
bilksverb(transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
plundersverb(transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
lootsverb(slang) Synonym of money.
kidnapsverb(transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
sterilizesverb(transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.
racketeersnounOne who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business.
funnelsnounA utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
reshippingnounAct of shipping something again.
cleansverb(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
rearmsnounTo arm, or prepare for use, again.
illicitlyIn an illicit manner; illegally, immorally, or inappropriately.

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