Launder vs Maunder - What's the difference?
launder | maunder |
(obsolete) A washerwoman.
(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.
A gutter (for rainwater)
To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
(obsolete) To lave; to wet.
(money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
* Sir Walter Scott
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To wander or walk aimlessly.
In obsolete terms the difference between launder and maunder
is that launder is to lave; to wet while maunder is a beggar.launder
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (washerwoman) launderer, laundress, washerwomanVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
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(en verb)- He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
- "Not so fast, Lady Cecilia; not yet;" and now Louisa went on with a medical maundering . "As to low spirits, my dear Cecilia, I must say I agree with Sir Sib Pennyfeather, who tells me it is not mere common low spirits "
- On the following day my friend's exhaustion had become so great that I began to fear his intelligence altogether broken up. But toward evening he briefly rallied, to maunder about many things, confounding in a sinister jumble the memories of the past weeks and those of bygone years.
- "What are you maundering about? He's going out from here a free man and whole—he's not going to die."