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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of clothespin.

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Examples

  • T-shirts hanging fire, clothespinned at the yard's perimeter

    Elegy on a country rooftop Brad Fisher 2010

  • Some ride in tight pacelines, others hunch over their aerobars, and still others weave dangerously as they ponder the cue sheets clothespinned to their handlebars.

    BSNYC Ride Report: Slippery When Hairy BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • She keeps a teabag clothespinned to her sleeve--that's really hardcore.

    Dell at Michelangelo's. Ann Althouse 2008

  • She excavated her roller skates from the bowels of her closet and was holding them up in her clothespinned fingers.

    The Almost Archer Sisters Lisa Gabriele 2008

  • She went downstairs and discovered the darkroom in the basement and looked at some pictures clothespinned to a line stretched across one corner.

    My Dreams Out in the Street Kim Addonizio 2007

  • After breakfast, our energy at its height, we raced our bikes down the street, with playing cards clothespinned to the spokes to simulate the sound of a motorcycle, challenging one another to see how many times we could circle the block without holding on to the handlebars.

    Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997

  • After breakfast, our energy at its height, we raced our bikes down the street, with playing cards clothespinned to the spokes to simulate the sound of a motorcycle, challenging one another to see how many times we could circle the block without holding on to the handlebars.

    Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997

  • Food orders are clothespinned on a string over the stove and three of Watts 'friends volunteer as waitresses in exchange for a free lunch.

    BangorDailyNews.com - News By Sharon Kiley Mack BDN Staff 2010

  • Food orders are clothespinned on a string over the stove and three of Watts 'friends volunteer as waitresses in exchange for a free lunch.

    BangorDailyNews.com - News By Sharon Kiley Mack BDN Staff 2010

  • Food orders are clothespinned on a string over the stove and three of Watts 'friends volunteer as waitresses in exchange for a free lunch.

    BangorDailyNews.com - News By Sharon Kiley Mack BDN Staff 2010

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