单词 | washing-machine |
释义 | > as lemmaswashing-machine washing-machine n. (a) a machine for washing clothes, cloth, etc.; (b) Technology a machine used in the manufacture of crêpe rubber, in which coagulated rubber is passed between rollers and subjected to a stream of water. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > washing-machine Yorkshire maiden1752 washing-machinec1754 washer1884 c1754 in Hermathena (1965) ci. 40 Things to be done... Morning Caps made..Curtains Chairs Carpets for Dublin..Washing Machine. a1780 Rake's Progress (1977) 9 Enter Porter with a Washing Machine, puts it down—Enter Beat'em, pursued by Washerwomen, who beat him & break his washing machine. 1780 Brit. Patent 1269 1 Washing machine. Rogerson's specification... My invention of an entire new machine called a laundry, for the purpose of washing and pressing all sorts of household linen. 1799 Hull Advertiser 15 June 2/4 A washing machine. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 816/2 [article Bleaching] From the washing-machine the chain of cloth is passed through a pair of squeezers. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 139/2 Washing Machines... The Electric Washers are warranted to be well made. 1910 Chambers's Jrnl. May 283/2 The rubber is then turned out as ‘crepe’, ‘block’, &c., and washing-machines, vacuum-driers, and hydraulic-presses play their part. 1944 A. Huxley Let. 10 Apr. (1969) 503 Fully furnished and equipped down to an electric washing machine. 1975 Sunday Times 16 Nov. 44/3 I also kept rushing to the other side of the room trying to empty rubbish into the washing machine. < as lemmas |
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