Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A flat-bottomed basin for washing dishes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a large pan for washing dishes.
  • noun large pan for washing dishes.

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  • noun A large basin or "pan" with a flat bottom in which dishes are washed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large pan for washing dishes

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Examples

  • I suppose you prefer the one who is lost, and my friend wants her own dishpan, which is made of gold and studded with diamonds and has magic powers.

    The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917

  • I suppose you prefer the one who is lost, and my friend wants her own dishpan, which is made of gold and studded with diamonds and has magic powers. "

    The Lost Princess of Oz 1887

  • I suppose you prefer the one who is lost, and my friend wants her own dishpan, which is made of gold and studded with diamonds and has magic powers. "

    The Lost Princess of Oz 1887

  • Then they are easily washed with just a sponge or cloth in the dishpan.

    Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010

  • I generally soak my dishes in a water-filled dishpan.

    Don’t Clean Dishes Before Putting Them In The Dishwasher | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Moreover, the English bathtub, then as now, was a puny and inconvenient contrivance — little more, in fact, than a glorified dishpan — and filling and emptying it required the attendance of a servant.

    Is H.L. Mencken Alive and Well at the NYT? « Isegoria 2008

  • Then I dried and put them away and threw the dishpan of still-steaming water out into the side yard.

    The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

  • I can see her after supper, leaning over the dishpan in the kitchen sink, her mind blessedly free of psychoanalysis.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • Potatoes and pasta cooked just fine in about half the amount of water we typically use, and the still scalding water used to soft boil eggs in the morning was poured directly into a dishpan to scrub up the dishes from dinner the night before (later rinsed, of course).

    10 Things I Learned While Living Without Running Water 2010

  • I can see her after supper, leaning over the dishpan in the kitchen sink, her mind blessedly free of psychoanalysis.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

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