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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/washerwife/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/washerwife/#x1)
- And he caused the auld washerwife and her dochter to be burned. (The Blue Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/washerwife/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/washerwife/#x3)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/washerwife/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.