laver

IPA: ɫˈeɪvɝ

A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
Porphyra vulgaris
One who laves: a washer.
Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
A surname from Anglo-Norman.

Examples of "laver" in Sentences

There's a saying in French: Il faut laver son linge sale en famille.
Wherefore baptism is congruously and truly called the laver of regeneration.
French Vocabulary la machine à laver = (clothes) washing machine nième = umpteenth
To the tune of a spinning machine à laver, I try for thenième fois to write a suitable opening phrase.
Now bodily washing with water is essential to Baptism: wherefore Baptism is called a "laver," according to Eph. 5: 26:
It was served with laver (seaweed), which the rice could be wrapped in, fresh fruit, bread and some strawberry yogurt.
And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates.
That immerfion in water, fignifies the the mortification of the old man, and the refurrection of the new; that therefore it may be called the laver of regeneration, and true laver in the word, alfo in the death and burial of Chrift; That the life of a chriflian is a daily baptifm once begun in this manner 5;