wash-pan

Snatching the first items that caught his eye—a broom, a mallet, a wash-pan and a dirty towel—he bolted and ran for about half a mile.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Snatching the first items that caught his eye—a broom, a mallet, a wash-pan and a dirty towel—he bolted and ran for about half a mile.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

In it he stated that Jim in his excitement had carried the office broom half a mile and had then come back after the wash-pan.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

In order to assuage my burning appetite I climbed over a fence, and, picking up a dirty, rusty wash-pan which had been thrown away, I drank a quart of water which I dipped from a horse-trough.

Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson

Colonel Howell had few suggestions to make, but while he was in the store, he selected a small leather-cased hatchet and an aluminum wash-pan.

On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland

In other districts, where clays containing limestone are used, the marl is mixed with water on a wash-pan and the resulting creamy fluid passed through coarse sieves on to a drying-bed.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

If necessary, coarse sand is added to the clay in the wash-pan, and such addition is often advisable because the washed clays are generally very fine in grain.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

But he swallowed the coffee in his cup, and tossed his eating-implements into the cook's wash-pan.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

She tried to talk to me one day about Aunt Martha being such a dirty housekeeper; and I wanted to say, 'Every one knows that you have been seen mixing up cakes in the kitchen wash-pan, Mrs. Leander Crawford!'

Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

She tried to talk to me one day about Aunt Martha being such a dirty housekeeper; and I wanted to say, 'Every one knows that YOU have been seen mixing up cakes in the kitchen wash-pan, Mrs. Leander

Rainbow Valley 1908