Wash drawing

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• drawing

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• Wash

  ·adj Washy; weak. II. Wash ·noun A liquid dentifrice. III. Wash ·noun Ten strikes, or bushels, of ...

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• wash

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• Drawing knife

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• drawing up

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• drawing water

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• Black wash

  ·noun ·Alt. of <<Blackwash>>. ...

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• By-wash

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• Wash sale

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• Wash stand

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• Wash-off

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• Wish-wash

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• Wood-wash

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• pan-wash

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• sheep-wash

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• a-wash

  Reefs even with the surface. The anchor just rising to the water's edge, in heaving up. ...

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• by-wash

  The outlet of water from a dam or discharge channel. ...

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• wash-strake

  See wash-board ...

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• wash-board

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• wash-boards

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• wash of an oar

  See blade of an oar ...

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• heave and a-wash

  An encouraging call when the ring of the anchor rises to the surface, and the stock stirs the water....

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