laver Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Lav"er noun
Etymology
OE. lavour, F. lavoir, L. lavatorium a washing place. See Lavatory.
Definitions
  1. A vessel for washing; a large basin.
  2. (Script. Hist.) (a) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet. (b) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.
  3. That which washes or cleanses. J. H. Newman.
Lav"er noun
Etymology
From Lave to wash.
Definitions
  1. One who laves; a washer. Obs.
La"ver noun
Definitions
  1. The fronds of certain marine algæ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purlpe laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.

Webster 1913