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rinse-pitchers

rinse-pitchers is the plural of rinse-pitcher.

Meaning of rinse-pitcher

Noun

rinse-pitcher (plural rinse-pitchers)

  1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
    • Rince Pytcher is he that will drinke out his thrift at the ale or wine, and be oft times dronke. This is a licoryce knaue that will swill his Maisters drink, and brybe his meate that is kept for him.[1561, John Awdely, “The Orders of Knaues”, in The Fraternitye of Vacabondes; republished in Edward Viles, Frederick James Furnivall, editors, Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caveat...

Questions about rinse-pitchers

What is rinse-pitchers the plural of?
Rinse-pitchers is the plural of rinse-pitcher.

Words near rinse-pitchers in the dictionary

  1. rinse down
  2. rinse off
  3. rinse out
  4. rinse outs
  5. rinse-pitcher
  6. rinse-pitchers
  7. rinse-repeat
  8. rinseability
  9. rinseable
  10. rinsed
  11. rinsed down

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