"washing-machine" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 18:",
          "text": "As soon as Mahailey got used to a washing-machine or a churn, Ralph, to keep up with the bristling march of events, brought home a still newer one.",
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        {
          "ref": "1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206:",
          "text": "‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I’ve just heard as how your washing-machine’s gone bung.’",
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        {
          "ref": "1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:",
          "text": "The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.",
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Rosamunde Pilcher, September, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 412:",
          "text": "The clatter from the kitchen was comforting. Edie, dealing with the breakfast dishes, loading the washing-machine with a weekend’s worth of dirty clothes, and talking to the dogs.",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith, Act of the Damned, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 14:",
          "text": "Her laundry smacked against the porthole of her washing-machine.",
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        "Dated form of washing machine."
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          "ref": "1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 18:",
          "text": "As soon as Mahailey got used to a washing-machine or a churn, Ralph, to keep up with the bristling march of events, brought home a still newer one.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206:",
          "text": "‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I’ve just heard as how your washing-machine’s gone bung.’",
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          "ref": "1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:",
          "text": "The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Rosamunde Pilcher, September, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 412:",
          "text": "The clatter from the kitchen was comforting. Edie, dealing with the breakfast dishes, loading the washing-machine with a weekend’s worth of dirty clothes, and talking to the dogs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1993, António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith, Act of the Damned, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 14:",
          "text": "Her laundry smacked against the porthole of her washing-machine.",
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