clothes prop

noun

1. a long wooden pole with a forked end, used to raise a line of washing to enable it to catch the breeze

Example Sentences

The lance-pole of this knight was a clothes-prop, at the end of which a pepper-box was duly fixed instead of a lance.

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The rake was found, and bound with stout cord to the clothes-prop, and the process of "salving" the wrecked steamer commenced.

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Up would go the clothes-prop of Mr. Fletcher or Frederick; down would go the stranger cat.

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Beneath, each armed with a clothes-prop, toiled Mr. Fletcher and Frederick under the immediate generalship of Mr. Marrapit.

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Leaving his clothes-prop lancers, Mr. Marrapit hurried down the drive to hold review.

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