Home › Words › B › backwasherbackwasherbackwasher means A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.EtymologyFrom back + washer.nounA machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.woolwasher 71% match — A person employed to wash wool after it is obtained from the animal. vs backwasher →backwash 67% match — A backward flow of water, as from oars, a propeller, breaking waves, etc. vs backwasher →bottlewasher 66% match — A machine (or, rarely, a person) that washes bottles. vs backwasher →backwashing 64% match — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air. vs backwasher →backwashable 64% match — Capable of being backwashed. vs backwasher →washplant 61% match — A type of machine used to extract ores from paydirt when mining placer deposits, using water and sedimentation processing. vs backwasher →sandwasher 61% match — An apparatus for separating sand from earthy substances. vs backwasher →washerlike 61% match — Resembling or characteristic of a washer (mechanical disk). vs backwasher →