LAUNDER

launder

(verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones

wash, launder

(verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; “Wash the towels, please!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

launder (plural launders)

(obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.

(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.

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

Synonym: inlayer

A gutter (for rainwater).

Synonyms

• (washerwoman): launderer, laundress, washerwoman

Verb

launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)

To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.

(obsolete) To lave; to wet.

(money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.

Anagrams

• Arundel, lurdane, rundale

Source: Wiktionary

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Laun"der, n. Etym: [Contracted fr. OE. lavender, F. lavandière, LL. lavandena, from L. lavare to wash. See Lave.]

1. A washerwoman. [Obs.]

2. (Mining)

Definition: A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.

Laun"der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Laundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Laundering.]

1. To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

2. To lave; to wet. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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