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wash-balls

wash-balls is the plural of wash-ball.

Meaning of wash-ball

Noun

wash-ball (plural wash-balls)

  1. (archaic) A ball or cake of substance used for bathing or personal cleansing, or to produce a lather for shaving; a ball of soap.
    • Magmata, um. The dregs of ointment, waſh-balls.1662, Christopher Wase, Dictionarium minus: A Compendious Dictionary English–Latin & Latin–English, London: Da. Maxwell, →OCLC, page [542]

Questions about wash-balls

What is wash-balls the plural of?
Wash-balls is the plural of wash-ball.

Words near wash-balls in the dictionary

  1. wash your sister sauce
  2. wash'd
  3. wash, rinse, repeat
  4. wash-and-wear
  5. wash-ball
  6. wash-balls
  7. wash-basin
  8. wash-basins
  9. wash-gilding
  10. wash-hand
  11. wash-leather

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