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• n  a working woman who takes in washing

• This procedure rubs the cloth samples as hard as any washing machine or washwoman can ever do.
• The old "covered wagon," waddling under her sawed-off flying deck like a washwoman under a bundle, set off on the highest adventure of her career.
• From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide .

• washerwoman
• laundrywoman
• laundress