lavador

Borrowed from Portuguese lavador (“washer”).

lavador (plural lavadors)

1. a machine used in mining placer deposits, which washes paydirt slurries pumped into the top of machine, extracting pebbled ores though its sluice runs into its riffles, grates and miner's moss, a type of washplant

• washplant

• Alvardo

From lavar +‎ -dor, or from Latin lavātōrem. Compare Spanish lavador, Italian lavatore, French laveur.

• Hyphenation: la‧va‧dor

lavador m (plural lavadores, feminine lavadora, feminine plural lavadoras)

1. washer (someone or something that washes)

• lavar

From lavar +‎ -dor, or Latin lavatōrem. Compare Portuguese lavador, Italian lavatore, French laveur.

• IPA^(key): /labaˈdoɾ/ [la.β̞aˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: la‧va‧dor

lavador m (plural lavadores, feminine lavadora, feminine plural lavadoras)

1. washer (someone or something that washes)

• “lavador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28