Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A baseboard; a mopboard.
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- noun A
washboard forscrubbing laundry .
Etymologies
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scrub + board
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Examples
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Ninety-eight percent of households used a 12 cent scrubboard to wash their clothes in 1900.
Electric Liberation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I went on that scrubboard and wash my clothes, hang them out.
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Didn't have on a scrubboard, no washer machine and no washerette to go to.
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Leroy sings the lead on old tunes like Charmin 'Betsy, and besides banjo he also plays an elaborately outfitted scrubboard, after the fashion of long-ago Opry star Robert Lunn who played it in Acuff's show.
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They're the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band - five guys and a scrubboard with roots like wisdom teeth, an old time band.
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