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clothes pole

noun

  1. a pole used for supporting a clothesline.


clothes pole

noun

  1. Also calledclothes post a post to which a clothesline is attached
  2. another term for clothes prop
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clothes pole1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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Example Sentences

There was a lean clothes pole in the back of the yard from which six washlines on pulleys connected with six kitchen windows.

The next morning, I washed the plastic bucket, put in two shirts, underwear, and socks, added hot water and detergent, and hung it by its rubber rope to the clothes pole, where it jigged and danced crazily all day.

Since the normal movement of the truck tipped it over, I tethered it by a length of strong elastic rope of cotton-covered rubber to the clothes pole in my little closet, where it could jiggle to its heart’s content without spilling.

"Ah, I remember this; it was the only place in the city you could get a proper wooden clothes pole," grins Britain's most affably bankable literary talent, or at least the one most devoid of airs, graces or hints of pretension.

Then he drove at them again with a clothes pole, and missed them again, although he made another pole by hitting that on a stone.

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