Laver word meaning and definition

[noun] seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
[noun] edible red seaweeds
[noun] (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish Temple to perform ritual ablutions
[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)

\Lav"er\ (l[=a]"v[~e]r), n. [OE. lavour, F. lavoir, L. lavatorium a washing place. See {Lavatory}.] 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\, n. [From {Lave} to wash.] One who laves; a washer. [Obs.]
\La"ver\ (l[=a]"v[~e]r), n. The fronds of certain marine alg[ae] used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the {Ulva latissima}; purple 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}. {Mountain laver} (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus {Palmella}, found on the sides of mountains

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