Launder

Quick meaning: Launder is a noun meaning A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.

Meaning

A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.

More Meanings

1. A gutter (for rainwater).
2. To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
3. (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
4. (mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
5. (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
6. (obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
7. (obsolete) To lave; to wet.

Example Sentences

Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine

Word Forms

• launders
• launderer
• laundering
• laundered

Synonyms for launder

Depending on context, synonyms include inlayer, wash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wash, lave, whiten, whitewash, cleanse, clear.

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