Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large basin or bowl in which to wash the hands and face.
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Examples
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								Then, I fill my armitage shanks enamel wash-basin with hot water, and wash my face with water-activated Safeway honey-almond soap. Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009 
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								Everything was in order and place, from my shaving outfit in the drawer beside the wash-basin, and my sea-boots and oilskins hung ready to hand, to my writing materials on the desk, before which a swing arm-chair, leather-upholstered and screwed solidly to the floor, invited me. CHAPTER VI 2010 
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								One wash-basin to share between two men. there is a boiler in the washroom and a big tub for hot baths was promised. 
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								Under the circumstances, with my wife and babies and a couple of lodgers suffering from the too great spaciousness of one room, taking a bath in a tin wash-basin would be an unfeasible undertaking. 
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								Here is what Ekateryna stated about this design: The idea is that the wash-basin is manufactured from sheet material, corian or metal. 
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								There was a small wash-basin with running water, a small radiator, and a large painted tallboy for his clothes. 
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								Rubashov walked up and down in the cell, from the door to the window and back, between bunk, wash-basin and bucket, six and a half steps there, six and a half steps back. Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010 
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								He washed face, arms and chest in cold water over the wash-basin, rinsed his mouth and dried himself with his handkerchief. Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010 
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								The set-up still didn't always wake him up, so he had a second Big Ben, on top of a second metal wash-basin, across the room, set up to go off a few minutes later. 
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								When my brother Dave, a notoriously hard-to-wake sleeper, was in the Navy, he would set up a Big Ben on top of an upside down metal wash-basin next to the bed. 
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