laver

Meanings

Plural: lavers

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)
(Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
edible red seaweeds
seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially
Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
Porphyra vulgaris
Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
One who laves: a washer.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).

Synonyms

red laver, Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver, sea lettuce, washbasin

Scrabble Score: 8

laver is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
laver is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
laver is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

laver is a valid Words With Friends word