launching tube

A metal tube for launching automobile torpedoes from a warship; a torpedo tub. *laun-der ( u silent), *lav-an-der, *lav-en-der, 8. [Fr. lavandier , lavandière , from Low Lat. lav an deria , from lav and us , pa. par. of Lat. lavo =to wash, to lave (q. v.).] 1. Ord. Lang .: One who washes; a washerwoman, a laundre . "It will not only make him an Amazon but a launder ." -Sidney: Arcadia , bk. i. 2. Mining : A wood water-gutter or pipe. A trough baccate or drupaceous. Found in the tropics of both hemispheres, one straggling into Europe, and Africa having but few. Genera forty-six, known species 450. ( Lindley .) lâu-rātes, s. pl. [Eng., ., laur ( us ); -ates.] Chem.: Salts of lauric-acid (q. v.).