laver

from The Century Dictionary.

• Hanging.
• noun A basin, bowl, trough, or cistern to wash in.
• noun In heraldry, a colter or plowshare when used as a bearing.
• noun Either of two species of algæ. of the genus Porphyra, P. laciniata and P. vulgaris, known in Ireland and Scotland as sloke or Sloakan.
• noun A dish composed of one of the above algæ or of some similar seaweed. See laver-bread.
• noun Figuratively, the baptismal font; the spiritual regeneration of baptism; any cleansing of the spirit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A vessel for washing; a large basin.
• noun A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.
• noun One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.
• noun That which washes or cleanses.
• noun obsolete One who laves; a washer.
• noun The fronds of certain marine algæ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and Porphyra vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.
• noun (Bot.) a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A red alga of the genus Porphyra.
• noun A wash-basin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)
• noun seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
• noun edible red seaweeds
• noun (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions