lavador

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lavador

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Borrowed from Portuguese lavador (“washer”).

noun lavadors

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.

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@misc{lavador_2026,
  title = {lavador},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lavador},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}