Meaning of wash-machine | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of wash machine.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“Warping and sizing blankets 76 yds. d10; wash-machine, d14, - - - - - [Dolls.] 24 [Cts.] 00”

“There are in the Patent Office at Washington, not less thon^([sic]) seventy five distinct patents for Yankee wash-machines; […]”

“We have not only had mangles, wash-machines, dumb-waiters, cooking stoves, churns, &c., without number, but the friends of woman-kind are trying to get up methods by which the clothes can wash themselves; […]”

“In addition to the Tavern, a store is generally kept, containing tin kettles and pins, gilt breast-pins and calico, soap and candy, vinegar and wash-machines, fish-hooks and peppermint, and as great a variety of notions as any Yankee ever carried in his pack.”

“Like now the war is over and we are gonna have all kinds electric things again, toasters, curlers, wash-machines, flatirons, everything.”

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