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wash-bowl
[f. wash v.]
†1. A wash-tub. Obs.
a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 155 Our Grekys ye walow in the washbol Argolicorum. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 231/1 Labrum,..a washing tub or washbooll. 1620Gataker Mariage Praier 19 It is no shame for thee, though thou beest wealthy, to seeke her [a wife] at the wash-boule. 1673Bp. S. Parker Reproof Reh. Transp. 11 So that methinks according to your notion, there is nothing so patly emblematical of Soveraign Princes, as Dufoy in his Tub, or a Pig under a wash-bole. 1698Collier Immor. Stage v. §3. 222 So that if he was resolv'd to have shown her thus unpolish'd, he should have made her keep Sheep, or brought her up at the Wash-Boul.
2. a. A wash-hand basin.
1816U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1915) X. 369 His wash-bowl [is] the knot of a tree. 1883C. D. Warner Roundabout Journ. 183 The guest is allowed a wash-bowl, but no pitcher. 1888Q. Rev. Jan. 132 Emerson alone took no part in this ‘storm in a wash-bowl’. 1904E. Nesbit Phœnix & Carpet viii. 157 Jane fetched the wash-bowl from the sink.
b. spec. A vessel in which gold is washed.
1848in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1874) XII. 106, I came from Salem City, With my wash bowl on my knee. 1850E. Christman Jrnl. 3 Apr. in One Man's Gold (1930) 131, I am standing in a hole to the depth of my knees, with my pick raised high in the air; my spade and washbowl are lying upon the ground by my side. 1925E. O'Neill Desire under Elms i. iv. 66 Their voices..take up the song of the gold-seekers to the old tune of ‘Oh Susannah’... ‘I'm off to Californi-a! With my wash bowl on my knee.’ |