Etymology

lavador

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Today it means: A machine used in mining placer deposits, which washes paydirt slurries pumped into the top of machine, extracting pebbled ores though its sluice runs into its riffles, grates and miner's moss, a type of washplant. Full definition →

Portuguese lavador
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  1. Portuguese · borrowed fromlavador“washer”
  2. English todaylavador

Borrowed from Portuguese lavador (“washer”).

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