bewash
English
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[edit]bewash (third-person singular simple present bewashes, present participle bewashing, simple past and past participle bewashed)
- (transitive, rare) To drench (someone or something) with water; to wash (someone or something) all over.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “Saint Distaffs Day, or the Morrow after Twelth Day”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 374:
- Bring in pailes of vvater then, / Let the Maides bevvaſh the men.
- 1901, Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales:
- And me no more shall any Gold glittering of the maidens / Henceforth, in all my life-days, / In ashen bath bewash me.