OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2239

basin

/ˈbeɪs(ə)n/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
jofaina • lavabo • lavamanos • palangana • pileta
A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
First, as you know, my house within the city Is richly furnished with plate and gold, Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
cuenca
An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic…
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