Of course here we have a verb form, the first and third person singular of the imperfect past tense of the subjunctive of the verb to wash, as our Open Dictionary tells us. But with a capital letter it is something else. That was the name of a guerrilla fighter from my land belonging to the Asturian tribe of the Zoelas, who fought, according to legend, sometimes even with Viriathus against the Romans in the second century BC. C . They called her the Captain. I was born in a town in Alcañices, the capital of my land of Alista.
