LekhoriLekhoriA washerwoman or washerman.
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.
To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
To lave; to wet.
Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandera, from Latin lavō (“I wash”).
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Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine
To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.