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lavador

lavador noun: 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.

Noun

lavador (plural lavadors)

  1. 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.

Forms of lavador

plurallavadors

Origin of lavador

Borrowed from Portuguese lavador (“washer”).

Questions about lavador

What does lavador mean?
Lavador 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.
What part of speech is lavador?
Lavador is a noun.
What is the plural of lavador?
The plural of lavador is lavadors.

Words near lavador in the dictionary

  1. lavacasts
  2. lavache
  3. lavacicle
  4. lavacicles
  5. Lavadia
  6. lavador
  7. lavadors
  8. lavafall
  9. lavafalls
  10. lavafield
  11. lavaflow

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