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dry sink
noun
- a wooden kitchen sink, especially of the 19th century, not connected to an external water supply, with a shallow zinc- or tin-lined well on top in which a dishpan can be placed, and usually a cupboard below.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dry sink1
First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences
The expandable tabletop slides back and forth to reveal and cover a dry sink.
From Popular-Science
In time it became a salt lake, a marsh, and then a dry sink.
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