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wash-trough
[f. wash v.]
1. Mining. A trough in which ore is washed.
1557in Pettus Fodinæ Reg. (1670) 95 Also that no Purchasors shall let or stop any Miners from any Wash-trough at any time. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 146 The first sort is reserved for use; the second, or middling sort, is again put into the stamping-mill, and afterwards into the wash-trough, where the parts that contain no cinnabar float in the water.
2. A trough used for washing the hands and face.
1902O. Wister Virginian ii. 16 It was not much of a toilet that I made in the first wash-trough of my experience, but it had to suffice. |