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wash-up
[f. vbl. phr. to wash up: see wash v. 1 f.]
1. a. An act of washing table utensils after a meal. In quots. attrib.
1884Health Exhib. Catal. 93/2 Butler's Pantry and Wash-up Sinks. 1900‘H. Lawson’ On Track 128 Grease inches deep in great black patches about the fireplace ends of the huts, where wash-up and ‘boiling’ water is thrown.
b. ? dial. A washing-up place, scullery.
1869Blackmore Lorna D. xi, He made even mother laugh..and Betty Muxworthy roared in the wash-up.
c. A wash; an act of washing oneself. N. Amer.
1887B. Harte Millionaire & Devil's Ford i. 176 You boys can go there for a general wash-up. 1917C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 64 They..dropped from the car and went back to the station for a wash-up. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. b–12/7 The shutdown of the assembly line for 30 minutes each shift—for rest and wash-up.
2. Mining. The washing of a collected quantity of ore; the quantity of gold that has been obtained by washing.
1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right xxiii, As soon as we had finished the next wash-up, I was to go back to Yatala. 1898Westm. Gaz. 16 June 4/3 The gold consisted of about a quarter of a million dollars in dust and three-quarters of a million in drafts. The estimate of the wash-up varies from twelve millions to thirty millions.
3. A dead body washed up by the waves.
a1903‘Merriman’ Last Hope i, Passen thinks it's [sc. the grave is] over there by the yew-tree—but he's wrong. That there one was a wash-up found by old Willem the lighthouse keeper one morning early.
Add:4. A follow-up discussion or debriefing; also, an outcome. colloq. (orig. Naval).
1961‘J. Winton’ Down Hatch viii. 108 ‘My first, and my most pleasant, duty,’ said CincRock at the Wash-Up, ‘is to welcome you all here and to congratulate you on your excellent showing during [Exercise] ‘Lucky Alphonse’.’ 1985National Times (Austral.) 22 Nov. 4/1 The formula was complicated. But in the wash-up, the loan agreement between AMRI and Firglers was extinguished. 1986Business Educ. Today June 19/1 A leaf should be taken from the university seminar approach book where in between introductory lecture and group wash-up there is a period of individual fact-finding and researching. 1990Aviation News 3 Aug. 277/4 All opposing and allied forces at Clark can sit down for a face-to-face ‘wash-up’ to sort out what went wrong and what went right—and why. |