Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cord, rope, or wire on which clothes may be hung to dry or air.
- transitive verb To knock down (an opponent in an athletic contest) by hooking the neck with an outstretched arm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rope on which clothes are hung to dry after being washed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rope orcord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry - verb To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cord on which clothes are hung to dry
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Examples
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More telling about age than her reference to a clothesline is her use of the word “drawers.”
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Paint the outside camo/cornfield color and stuff cornstalks in clothesline that is stapled around the outside.
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Paint the outside camo/cornfield color and stuff cornstalks in clothesline that is stapled around the outside.
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I know having a clothesline is very old-fashioned, but I love mine.
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THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE candidates 9/3/08 election news a woman spits up sticks & stones sharpening the darkness of her smile a poet the color of a crow on the clothesline is perfect
ed markowski | candidates 9/3/08 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Really hope the new pull out clothesline is operational by the end of the day (ditto ‘wrongness’ when it comes to using a dryer in summer).
Archive 2008-01-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008
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I think, when my kids are a bit older and more able to do without me here for an hour or so at a time, I might just start hanging out at the laundromat - at least on wet, cloudy days like today where the clothesline is not an option.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: February 2006 Archives 2006
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I think, when my kids are a bit older and more able to do without me here for an hour or so at a time, I might just start hanging out at the laundromat - at least on wet, cloudy days like today where the clothesline is not an option.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Laundromat Revolution! 2006
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And it wasn't even that I was looking at it, because we were in the kitchen and you can't even see the clothesline from the kitchen.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: And the water rolls down the drain... 2005
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And it wasn't even that I was looking at it, because we were in the kitchen and you can't even see the clothesline from the kitchen.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: July 2005 Archives 2005
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