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wash ball

wash ball is the alternative form 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]

Forms of wash ball

pluralwash balls

Questions about wash ball

What is wash ball the alternative form of?
Wash ball is the alternative form of wash-ball.

Words near wash ball in the dictionary

  1. wash and go
  2. wash and squash
  3. wash away
  4. wash bag
  5. wash bags
  6. wash ball
  7. wash balls
  8. wash barrel
  9. wash barrels
  10. wash basin
  11. wash basins

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