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Definition of Pressure-wash
1. Verb. Wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew. "Pressure-wash the house"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressure-wash
Literary usage of Pressure-wash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings (1904)
"The cakes retain ther more moisture with central than with high pressure wash.
the case of a fairly gritty slime, which fills quickly, ..."
2. More Recent Cyanide Practice by Harry Foster Bain (1910)
"Forming cake 7 Displacing slime 4 Washing 20 Displacing wash-water and emptying
4 Total time 35 Cake 1% in. thick, made at 75-Ib. pressure; wash-water used ..."
3. The London Medical Gazette (1841)
"When you think that a patient is likely to be confined so long in bed that there
may be mortification from pressure, wash the parts two or three times a day ..."
4. Keeping It Clean: Removing Exterior Dirt, Paint, Stains and Graffiti from by Anne E. Grimmer (1992)
"... be cleaned effectively of dirt simply with a low-to-medium-pressure wash,
adding a non-ionic detergent that does not deposit a solid, visible residue, ..."
5. Bleaching and Related Processes as Applied to Textile Fibers and Other Materials by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1921)
"_ (2; First lye boil, 8 to 10 hours with salt of soda 2° to 3° Tw., with rosin
soap without pressure; wash in kier and squeeze. (3) Sour with hydrochloric ..."
6. Industrial Hydrogen by Hugh Stott Taylor (1921)
"This may best be accomplished in a pressure scrubber (see p. 80) or by passage
through a series of pressure wash bottles. Thus, for a plant treating 41000 ..."
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