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  • noun US washing line, clothesline

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Examples

  • Rocks/Old-Fashioned Ice Crafted for shorter and wider glasses, this huge "rock" of ice accommodates drinks that call for "straight" spirit, or the addition of citrus, while maintaining the proper "washline" (the "line" which the liquid creates before the lip of your glass).

    Neve Luxury Ice 2009

  • The day gleamed and whirlygigged around her as if the linen on Maybelle's washline had expanded to fill the world.

    Ascension Dean H. Wild 2010

  • Since the jeans were 'legal', they were washed openly and hung on the washline in the yard to dry.

    Chapter 10 - First Escape Date 1987

  • What I get from my window is a close-up of Mrs. Houlihan's washline.

    The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza Block, Lawrence 1980

  • And he pointed to a washline that hung on a nearby hook.

    The Rover Boys in Business Or, The search for the missing bonds Edward Stratemeyer 1896

  • Then the washline was cut, and with it two of the longest ladders were lashed together as quickly as possible.

    The Rover Boys in Business Or, The search for the missing bonds Edward Stratemeyer 1896

  • Next morning Rob and Grant were gossiping over the washline, like Lucy and Ethyl 55 years ago.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tallulah Morehead 2011

  • Back home and the driveway was strewn with firewood, the washline with wetsuit and laundry.

    Motoring 2010

  • "One of my girlfriends has been needling her husband to put a washline," she said in her backyard the other day, as her bath towels swayed in the breeze.

    unknown title 2009

  • Back before the war, Indian #9 had delivered newspapers to the stoops of Ashland Avenue, and his voice had echoed richly among the chatter of sewing machines and washline arias.

    VQR 2009

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