front loader

US: (frunt′lō′dər)

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

front′ load′er, 

1. Mechanical Engineering a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).

Also, front-loader. 

• 1955–60

front-load•er  (frunt′lō′dər), n. 

1. Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering See front-end loader. 
2. See front loader. 

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front loader noun

1. a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed