Washerwoman

1. n. The pied wagtail; — so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
2. n. A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.