washerwife

«washerwife» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: washerwoman — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

washerwoman

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A woman whose work is washing clothes for other people. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say washerwoman.

examples

• And he caused the old washerwife and her daughter to be burnt. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• And he caused the auld washerwife and her dochter to be burned. (The Blue Fairy Book) tree →
• At seven years' end she got her iron shoon, clomb the glassy hill, and chanced to come to the old washerwife's habitation. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

washerwoman

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 6 (Torah 0, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «washerwife» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.