Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A clip of wood or plastic for fastening clothes to a clothesline.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A forked piece of wood or a small spring-clip for fastening clothes on a clothes-line.
Wiktionary
- n. A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying.
- v. transitive To affix with a clothespin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A forked piece of wood or plastic, or a small device with a spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
WordNet 3.0
- n. wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline
- n. wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline
Etymologies
- From clothes + pin. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And then he informed me that attached to the clothespin was a sign that said, ‘I’m a dork.’”
“You can use a clothespin to attach each cap to the dishwasher rack.”
“You know that you can't even drive through Iowa without a clothespin on your nose to protect you from the smell of all of the Pig S (manure) T!”
“Rick rack trim from my sewing stash was glued down and held with a clothespin til it dried, and the oval was outlined with tee shirt paint, which is sometimes only about 50c and lasts for a long, long time.”
“We lined it up along a rope, each of us attaching an end with a clothespin.”
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““Do you know how many freckles you got yesterday?” he asked when I had attached the last clothespin.”
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“The average clothespin isn't as formal or beautiful as it should be, so I move the parts around while keeping it recognizable.”
“I sat down beside her, pulled the clothespin off her nose and watched, with amusement, as Mabel picked up the mirror on the table.”
“See the little sign hanging from the clothespin (lower left)?”
“The idea was formed in 1988 when Michael Eidson , a bicyclist competing in a 100-mile road race, decided to fill an IV bag with water, slip it into a tube sock and attach the unit to his body with a clothespin—drinking water through a tube while pedaling, rather than having to get his hands around a water bottle, according to CamelBak's website.”
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