[f. WASH v.]
† 1. A wash-tub. Obs.
a. 1529. Skelton, Sp. Parrot, 155. Our Grekys ye walow in the washbol Argolicorum.
1585. Higins, Junius’ Nomencl., 231/1. Labrum,… a washing tub or washbooll.
1620. Gataker, Mariage Praier, 19. It is no shame for thee, though thou beest wealthy, to seeke her [a wife] at the wash-boule.
1673. Bp. S. Parker, Reproof Reh. Transp., 11. So that methinks according to your notion, there is nothing so patly emblematical of Soveraign Princes, as Dufoy in his Tub, or a Pig under a wash-bole.
1698. Collier, Immor. Stage, v. § 3. 222. So that if he was resolv’d to have shown her thus unpolish’d, he should have made her keep Sheep, or brought her up at the Wash-Boul.
2. A wash-hand basin.
1883. C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journ., 183. The guest is allowed a wash-bowl, but no pitcher.
1888. Q. Rev., Jan., 132. Emerson alone took no part in this ‘storm in a wash-bowl.’
1904. E. Nesbit, Phœnix & Carpet, viii. 157. Jane fetched the wash-bowl from the sink.
