(mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
“He mocks and tortures the Chinese laundryman, though privately his friend, along with the other boys.”
“I had a French neighbour, a Bangladeshi plumber, a Pakistani laundryman, a Goan class teacher, and a Swiss-American benchmate in school.”
“As a laundryman in Paris in 1920, he co-founded the French Communist Party, and in 1923 went as its delegate to the Communist International in Moscow.”
“We have non-chain coffee shops and laundromats whose patrons are a fascinating mix of social strata!”
“A particularly hated weekend chore involved the counting and rolling of all the change taken from the machines at the three laundromats he owned.”
“These intervention programs make use of lay leadership in churches, schools, beauty salons, barbershops, tattoo and body piercing salons, and laundromats.”