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  1.  One who bleaches.

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1550.  Coverdale, Spir. Perle, vi. (1588), 75. The dier, blecher, or the laundresse.

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1703.  A. Van Leeuwenhoek, in Phil. Trans., XXIV. 1526. A Bleecher cast Water with his Scoop.

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1850.  Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863), 382. Wool-combers, bleachers, and fullers.

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1863.  J. Murphy, Comm. Gen. i. 26, 70. He has made … the sun his bleacher and painter.

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  2.  A vessel used in bleaching.

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1883.  Helen Hunt Jackson, in Century Mag., XXVI. 812/2. The [almonds] are … poured into the bleachers—boxes with perforated bottoms.

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