(humorous, derogatory) Cheap sherry.

A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents. / A washing bottle.

Alternative form of wash-ball.

Split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc. / Alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts.

(fisheries) A barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting.

(pharmacology) Yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water; a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater.

plural of wash-ball.

plural of wash ball (Alternative form of wash-balls.)

(archaic) A ball or cake of substance used for bathing or personal cleansing, or to produce a lather for shaving; a ball of soap.

a ball-shaped object used to clean clothes by mechanical action when used in a washing machine, used as a substitute for laundry detergent