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

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

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

1. washer (someone or something that washes)

• lavar

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

lavador m (plural lavadores)

1. washer (someone or something that washes)

• lavar