laundern.

Brit.

/ˈlɔːndə/,

/ˈlɑːndə/, U.S.

/ˈlɔndər/,

/ˈlɑndər/

Forms: Middle English– lander, Middle English Scottish landar, laynder, Middle English–1600s la(u)ndre, law(e)nder(e, Middle English– launder.

Etymology: Contraction of lavender n.¹

†1. A person (of either sex) who washes linen. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > one who washes clothes

laundera1350

lavendera1350

laundererc1475

lavendrya1483

washer1530

scourer1756

a1350 St. Brice 71 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 156 A woman þat his lander was.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 290/1 Lawndere, lotor, lotrix.

1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 79 As Laundres witness evidently, When of Ashes thei make their Lye.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 273 It is ane landar [1489 Adv. layndar]..That hir childyne richt now has tane.

1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. D ^v She wolde banyshe the sonne And then were we pore launders all vndonne.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 32 In washing by hand, haue an eye to thy boll, for Launders and millers be quicke of their toll.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 26 Amylum is taken to be starche, the use whereof is best knowen to launders.

a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 31 How small things they be, that these cunning Launders can with so small cost make white.

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Categories »

a. A trough for water, either cut in the earth, or formed of wood; esp. in Mining, a trough for washing the ore clean from dirt.

Thesaurus »

b. A rainwater gutter.

†c. A tube made out of a hollow tree (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube

conduit1340

conveyance1577

forcer1598

lead1598

suspiracle1598

trunk1610

by-conduit1631

ducture1670

boxing1683

duct1713

launder1736

1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2108 The Launder (i.e. a trench cut in the floor, 8 foot long, and 10 foot over) stopt at the other end with a turf, so that the waters run away, and the Ore sinks to the bottom.

?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 8 The water brought to the top of the wheel, in landers or troughs which cast the same into Buckets made in the wheel.

1736 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 48 This centrifugal Wheel can in a little Time drive down Air through wooden Trunks (or Launders) of seven Inches bore.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Dressing The launder..fills up with the dressed ore.

1865 Court Common Pleas 10 July A lander or trough..had been constructed to carry water to his works across the defendant's land.

1884 Western Morning News 9 Aug. 1/4 Lot of Launders, 14 buddles.

1891 Blizzard of 1891 25 Icicles hung inches long from windowsills and launders of the houses.

d. Metallurgy. A channel for conveying molten metal from a furnace or container to a ladle or mould.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > channel for conveying molten metal

channel1679

runner1799

launder1900

1900 Kynoch Jrnl. Oct.–Nov. 20/1 The tapping hole is now cut through the bottom of the furnace, and a wrought iron channel—technically called a lander—fastened round it.

1906 W. Macfarlane Princ. & Pract. Iron & Steel Manuf. x. 110 The Shoot or Launder, along which the steel and slag are conveyed from the taphole to the ladle, is a half-round gutter made of steel plates.

1929 W. Lister Pract. Steelmaking x. 78 With all fixed furnaces the lander is necessarily 10 ft. to 15 ft. long, and sometimes up to 20 ft. long.

1967 P. McGeown Heat the Furnace x. 97 We had her running down the lander as the twelve o'clock hooter sounded.

1971 W. K. V. Gale Iron & Steel Industry: Dict. Terms 195 The tapping spout of an open-hearth furnace is usually called a launder.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

launderv.

Brit.

/ˈlɔːndə/,

/ˈlɑːndə/, U.S.

/ˈlɔndər/,

/ˈlɑndər/

Forms: Also 1600s lander, laundre.

Etymology: < launder n.

a. transitive. To wash and ‘get up’ (linen).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)] > wash, dry and iron

launder1609

to make up1890

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 14 It does your visage more adorn, Then if 'twere prun'd, & starcht, & landerd.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 97 The picture..is up in the old Baron's hall that the maids launder the clothes in.

1883 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier xvii His dress was coarse but clean; his linen soft and badly laundered.

1890 Cent. Mag. Oct. 933/1 White duck, which they were permitted to send outside to be laundered.

absolute.1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 150 Some of their beggarly Soldiers Trulls does nothing but Launder for 'em, they'r always at the Wash-Tub.figurative and in extended use.1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K^v Laundring the silken figures in the brine, That seasoned woe had pelleted in teares.1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. i. 33 Their Horses..by excessive heats, continuall evaporations, and sweats..were laundred and ladder'd.1878 A. C. Swinburne tr. F. Villon in Poems & Ballads 2nd Ser. 223 The rain has washed and laundered us all five.

b. To transfer funds of dubious or illegal origin, usually to a foreign country, and then later to recover them from what seem to be ‘clean’ (i.e. legitimate) sources. Also transferred.The use arose from the Watergate inquiry in the United States in 1973–4.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > other money-dealing operations

to part stakes (also shares)1553

marshal1771

float1872

squeeze1885

hedge1909

block1932

to lock in1950

divest1962

reintermediate1971

launder1973

wash1973

1973 Guardian 19 Apr. 14/2 Suitcases stuffed with 200,000 dollars of Republican campaign funds; money being ‘laundered’ in Mexico.

1973 Publishers Weekly 17 Sept. 54/2 A New York lawyer carrying $200,000 in his camera case to be ‘laundered’ in Switzerland.

1973 J. M. White Garden Game 128 Phoenix is a city where the Mafia is well entrenched; its booming real-estate, building and service industries are ready-made havens for ‘laundering’ the extortion and gambling money from Nevada and California.

1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Apr. 1 (headline) Kerr concedes U.S. criminals ‘launder’ money in Ontario.

†2. To ‘sweat’ (gold or plate). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > mutilate coin [verb (transitive)]

roundc1400

wash1421

royna1475

clipa1513

rounge1540

diminish1569

scale1576

launder1612

sweat1785

shorten1857

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i I'll bring..Thy necke within a nooze, for laundring gold and barbing it.

3. intransitive. Of a fabric: to admit of being laundered; to bear laundering without damage to its texture, colour, etc. Used with adverbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (intransitive)] > be washable

wash1765

launder1908

1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 916 It will launder as well as a piece of linen.

1909 Daily Chron. 22 July 7/5 A single initial..done in satin stitch..is showy, quickly worked and launders well.

1923 Daily Mail 19 Feb. 1 (advt.) This hard wearing fabric, which launders perfectly, can be obtained.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 252/1 Most silks launder well.

Derivatives

ˈlaundered adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [adjective] > washed, dried and ironed

laundered1892

1892 Daily News 31 Mar. 5/5 Ravachol..is rather a dandy, and affects nicely-laundered shirts.

1893 K. D. Wiggin Cathedral Courtship 151 A freshly laundered cushion cover.

Draft additions 1997

b. figurative. To treat or process (something) so as to make it acceptable; to make expedient (and often unscrupulous) alterations or improvements to; spec. to lower (a mileometer reading) when selling a second-hand car.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] > trade in other illegal or immoral ways

colour1419

laundera1961

gazunder1988

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (transitive)] > make expedient or unscrupulous improvements to

laundera1961

a1961 H. R. Warfel in Webster (at cited word) Succeeded pretty well in laundering the grammar.

1976 N.Y. Times 3 May 35/7 Unscrupulous dealers..‘launder’ the mileage of cars.

1978 Radio Times 28 Jan. 15/4 Its followers believe the working class has been bamboozled out of its legitimate rights by a capitalist conspiracy that ‘appropriated’ trade unionism and socialism, then ‘laundered’ and returned them as harmless institutions.

1981 H. Rawson Dict. Euphemisms (1983) 163 When dealers in used..cars turn back odometers..it is correct to say that the mileage on the vehicles has been laundered.

1985 Toronto Sun 10 Oct. 12/2 There is nothing we can do to launder the rhetoric of Soviet leaders.

1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost ii. iv. 290 He had also managed to expunge any paper trace of Herrick Hubbard's presence in the Snake Pit... My immediate past had been effectively laundered.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	launder
释义	laundern. Brit. /ˈlɔːndə/, /ˈlɑːndə/, U.S. /ˈlɔndər/, /ˈlɑndər/ Forms: Middle English– lander, Middle English Scottish landar, laynder, Middle English–1600s la(u)ndre, law(e)nder(e, Middle English– launder. Etymology: Contraction of lavender n.¹ †1. A person (of either sex) who washes linen. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > one who washes clothes laundera1350 lavendera1350 laundererc1475 lavendrya1483 washer1530 scourer1756 a1350 St. Brice 71 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 156 A woman þat his lander was. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 290/1 Lawndere, lotor, lotrix. 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 79 As Laundres witness evidently, When of Ashes thei make their Lye. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 273 It is ane landar [1489 Adv. layndar]..That hir childyne richt now has tane. 1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. D ^v She wolde banyshe the sonne And then were we pore launders all vndonne. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 32 In washing by hand, haue an eye to thy boll, for Launders and millers be quicke of their toll. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 26 Amylum is taken to be starche, the use whereof is best knowen to launders. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 31 How small things they be, that these cunning Launders can with so small cost make white. 2. Thesaurus » Categories » a. A trough for water, either cut in the earth, or formed of wood; esp. in Mining, a trough for washing the ore clean from dirt. Thesaurus » b. A rainwater gutter. †c. A tube made out of a hollow tree (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube conduit1340 conveyance1577 forcer1598 lead1598 suspiracle1598 trunk1610 by-conduit1631 ducture1670 boxing1683 duct1713 launder1736 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2108 The Launder (i.e. a trench cut in the floor, 8 foot long, and 10 foot over) stopt at the other end with a turf, so that the waters run away, and the Ore sinks to the bottom. ?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 8 The water brought to the top of the wheel, in landers or troughs which cast the same into Buckets made in the wheel. 1736 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 48 This centrifugal Wheel can in a little Time drive down Air through wooden Trunks (or Launders) of seven Inches bore. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Dressing The launder..fills up with the dressed ore. 1865 Court Common Pleas 10 July A lander or trough..had been constructed to carry water to his works across the defendant's land. 1884 Western Morning News 9 Aug. 1/4 Lot of Launders, 14 buddles. 1891 Blizzard of 1891 25 Icicles hung inches long from windowsills and launders of the houses. d. Metallurgy. A channel for conveying molten metal from a furnace or container to a ladle or mould. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > channel for conveying molten metal channel1679 runner1799 launder1900 1900 Kynoch Jrnl. Oct.–Nov. 20/1 The tapping hole is now cut through the bottom of the furnace, and a wrought iron channel—technically called a lander—fastened round it. 1906 W. Macfarlane Princ. & Pract. Iron & Steel Manuf. x. 110 The Shoot or Launder, along which the steel and slag are conveyed from the taphole to the ladle, is a half-round gutter made of steel plates. 1929 W. Lister Pract. Steelmaking x. 78 With all fixed furnaces the lander is necessarily 10 ft. to 15 ft. long, and sometimes up to 20 ft. long. 1967 P. McGeown Heat the Furnace x. 97 We had her running down the lander as the twelve o'clock hooter sounded. 1971 W. K. V. Gale Iron & Steel Industry: Dict. Terms 195 The tapping spout of an open-hearth furnace is usually called a launder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). launderv. Brit. /ˈlɔːndə/, /ˈlɑːndə/, U.S. /ˈlɔndər/, /ˈlɑndər/ Forms: Also 1600s lander, laundre. Etymology: < launder n. 1. a. transitive. To wash and ‘get up’ (linen). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)] > wash, dry and iron launder1609 to make up1890 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 14 It does your visage more adorn, Then if 'twere prun'd, & starcht, & landerd. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 97 The picture..is up in the old Baron's hall that the maids launder the clothes in. 1883 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier xvii His dress was coarse but clean; his linen soft and badly laundered. 1890 Cent. Mag. Oct. 933/1 White duck, which they were permitted to send outside to be laundered. absolute.1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 150 Some of their beggarly Soldiers Trulls does nothing but Launder for 'em, they'r always at the Wash-Tub.figurative and in extended use.1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K^v Laundring the silken figures in the brine, That seasoned woe had pelleted in teares.1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. i. 33 Their Horses..by excessive heats, continuall evaporations, and sweats..were laundred and ladder'd.1878 A. C. Swinburne tr. F. Villon in Poems & Ballads 2nd Ser. 223 The rain has washed and laundered us all five. b. To transfer funds of dubious or illegal origin, usually to a foreign country, and then later to recover them from what seem to be ‘clean’ (i.e. legitimate) sources. Also transferred.The use arose from the Watergate inquiry in the United States in 1973–4. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > other money-dealing operations to part stakes (also shares)1553 marshal1771 float1872 squeeze1885 hedge1909 block1932 to lock in1950 divest1962 reintermediate1971 launder1973 wash1973 1973 Guardian 19 Apr. 14/2 Suitcases stuffed with 200,000 dollars of Republican campaign funds; money being ‘laundered’ in Mexico. 1973 Publishers Weekly 17 Sept. 54/2 A New York lawyer carrying $200,000 in his camera case to be ‘laundered’ in Switzerland. 1973 J. M. White Garden Game 128 Phoenix is a city where the Mafia is well entrenched; its booming real-estate, building and service industries are ready-made havens for ‘laundering’ the extortion and gambling money from Nevada and California. 1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Apr. 1 (headline) Kerr concedes U.S. criminals ‘launder’ money in Ontario. †2. To ‘sweat’ (gold or plate). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > mutilate coin [verb (transitive)] roundc1400 wash1421 royna1475 clipa1513 rounge1540 diminish1569 scale1576 launder1612 sweat1785 shorten1857 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i I'll bring..Thy necke within a nooze, for laundring gold and barbing it. View more context for this quotation 3. intransitive. Of a fabric: to admit of being laundered; to bear laundering without damage to its texture, colour, etc. Used with adverbs. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (intransitive)] > be washable wash1765 launder1908 1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 916 It will launder as well as a piece of linen. 1909 Daily Chron. 22 July 7/5 A single initial..done in satin stitch..is showy, quickly worked and launders well. 1923 Daily Mail 19 Feb. 1 (advt.) This hard wearing fabric, which launders perfectly, can be obtained. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 252/1 Most silks launder well. Derivatives ˈlaundered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [adjective] > washed, dried and ironed laundered1892 1892 Daily News 31 Mar. 5/5 Ravachol..is rather a dandy, and affects nicely-laundered shirts. 1893 K. D. Wiggin Cathedral Courtship 151 A freshly laundered cushion cover. Draft additions 1997 b. figurative. To treat or process (something) so as to make it acceptable; to make expedient (and often unscrupulous) alterations or improvements to; spec. to lower (a mileometer reading) when selling a second-hand car. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] > trade in other illegal or immoral ways colour1419 laundera1961 gazunder1988 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (transitive)] > make expedient or unscrupulous improvements to laundera1961 a1961 H. R. Warfel in Webster (at cited word) Succeeded pretty well in laundering the grammar. 1976 N.Y. Times 3 May 35/7 Unscrupulous dealers..‘launder’ the mileage of cars. 1978 Radio Times 28 Jan. 15/4 Its followers believe the working class has been bamboozled out of its legitimate rights by a capitalist conspiracy that ‘appropriated’ trade unionism and socialism, then ‘laundered’ and returned them as harmless institutions. 1981 H. Rawson Dict. Euphemisms (1983) 163 When dealers in used..cars turn back odometers..it is correct to say that the mileage on the vehicles has been laundered. 1985 Toronto Sun 10 Oct. 12/2 There is nothing we can do to launder the rhetoric of Soviet leaders. 1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost ii. iv. 290 He had also managed to expunge any paper trace of Herrick Hubbard's presence in the Snake Pit... My immediate past had been effectively laundered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1350v.1609
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