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View synonyms for clothesline

clothesline

[ klohz-lahyn, klohthz- ]

noun

  1. a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts, or buildings, on which clean laundry is hung to dry.


clothesline

/ ˈkləʊðzˌlaɪn /

noun

  1. a piece of rope, cord, or wire on which clean washing is hung to dry or air
“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 clothesline1

First recorded in 1820–30; clothes + line 1
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Example Sentences

Other first responders also offered accounts — of babies beheaded, or hung from a clothesline, or killed together in a nursery, or placed in an oven – which were later debunked by Israeli reporters.

A strip of a mud-floored foyer packs in a kitchen, a few plastic chairs, two rope beds and fraying clotheslines.

From BBC

Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.

We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.

Women hang up bedding on clotheslines in the morning to keep them dry during the day, then lay them on the ground at night to sleep.

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