hand-washv.
/ˈhandwɒʃ/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌwɔʃ/, /ˈhæn(d)ˌwɑʃ/ transitive. To wash (something) by hand; (now esp.) to wash (clothing) by hand rather than by machine. Also used intransitively.
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1814 Gen. Rep. Agric. State & Polit. Circumstances Scotl. III. 131 Sometimes they are hand-washed by men who stand in the pool, and have the sheep forced towards them singly.
1852 Weekly News & Chron. 24 July 466/3 The heaviest of the sand and the gold..is then carefully put in a pan, and hand-washed until only the gold remains.
1909 Farmington (New Mexico) Enterprise 9 Apr. 3/1 Take soapy water and a sponge and hand-wash every leaf.
1959 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 10 (advt.) Even more of a drudge was hand-washing the family's dirty clothes.
1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. li. 695 When my wife handwashed,..she used a... what do you call it? Scrub board.
2005 C. Mendelson Laundry i. i. 15 Consider separately hand-washing one or two items—the shirt that bleeds, the one unbleachable white item—that do not belong with a load.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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