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
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).
• (washerwoman): launderer, laundress, washerwoman
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.
• Arundel, lurdane, rundale
Source: Wiktionary
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
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
