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/dˈɪʃwˌɑʃər/ Listen

noun

Dishwasher n.

One who, or that which, washes dishes.

(Zool.) A European bird; the wagtail.

An electrical appliance (4) which washes tableware automatically by directing powerful streams of hot soapy water at the items from multiple jets.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dishwasher" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Paris form a division by themselves. The most noted of these is the Eldorado, which has given more than one prominent performer to the Parisian stage—Theresa, who, once a dishwasher in a hotel, left her soap-suds and mop to become a Parisian celebrity, the instructress of a princess, and now a really talented comic actress and bouffe singer; Judic and Theo, the rival beauties of the Opera Bouffe; ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various

... money there was in it. If it had been money I wanted, I could have accepted a very fine offer from a university to fill the Chair of Oriental Languages; but instead of being Professor of Sanskrit and drawing a fine salary, I took the position as dishwasher in a restaurant in San Francisco for awhile. Then I worked with pick and shovel on the Pacific Coast Road. Next I worked on the streets in the City of Chicago. I returned to Orangeville and took a position as cowboy on a great cattle ranch near Orangeville. Then ...

— A California Girl • Edward Eldridge

... about as you like with me, little girl," he said fondly. "If it's a dishwasher for Ma that you want, why, I'll have to get one, ...

— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham

... carried the cook and the dishwasher out from the kitchen immediately after the explosion of the boiler, and the other injured ones were in the little cottage adjoining the hotel, where Miss Robbins was binding up their burns and making good use of her skill and the materials that she ...

— The Motor Girls Through New England - or, Held by the Gypsies • Margaret Penrose

... the cook and the dishwasher out from the kitchen immediately after the explosion of the boiler, and the other injured ones were in the little cottage adjoining the hotel, where Miss Robbins was binding up their burns and making good use of her skill and the materials that she ...

— The Motor Girls Through New England - or, Held by the Gypsies • Margaret Penrose