wash-machine
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Warping and sizing blankets 76 yds. d10; wash-machine, d14, - - - - - [Dolls.] 24 [Cts.] 00"
- "There are in the Patent Office at Washington, not less thon^([sic]) seventy five distinct patents for Yankee wash-machines; […]"
- "We have not only had mangles, wash-machines, dumb-waiters, cooking stoves, churns, &c., without number, but the friends of woman-kind are trying to get up methods by which the clothes can wash themselves; […]"
- "In addition to the Tavern, a store is generally kept, containing tin kettles and pins, gilt breast-pins and calico, soap and candy, vinegar and wash-machines, fish-hooks and peppermint, and as great a variety of notions as any Yankee ever carried in his pack."
- "Like now the war is over and we are gonna have all kinds electric things again, toasters, curlers, wash-machines, flatirons, everything."