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Laver   /lˈeɪvər/   Listen
Laver

noun
1.
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).  Synonyms: Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver.
2.
(Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions.
3.
Edible red seaweeds.  Synonym: red laver.
4.
Seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds.  Synonym: sea lettuce.





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"Laver" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I have sent little things to the 'Censor' before, which they seem to regard in the light of pickles and laver." ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the holy place, where was found the laver. Here the priests made themselves clean, and they could not minister in the presence of Jehovah until they had been made clean from all earthly defilement. This second text gives us the same thought, for here the writer ...
— And Judas Iscariot - Together with other evangelistic addresses • J. Wilbur Chapman


Words linked to "Laver" :   Old Testament, Ulva, Rod Laver, Porphyra, chlorophyte, Rodney George Laver, sea lettuce, genus Porphyra, genus Ulva, tennis player, red algae, basin, green algae


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