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washboard
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A fork and a couple of shining spoons lay beside it, along with the washboard and scrubbing brush. ▪ He was massive, monumental, lacking only the ideal washboard stomach. ▪ Henry stayed up quite late and Fred gave him a lesson ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Washboard may refer to: Washboard (musical instrument) , a percussion instrument Washboard (laundry) , a tool for washing clothes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Washboard \Wash"board`\, n. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them. A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard. (Naut.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side [syn: splashboard ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed 2 (context musici English) such a board used as a simple percussion instrument 3 (context nautical English) a board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard ...
Usage examples of washboard.
There was a washboard at the end of the porch, and on the post above the board hung a little round mirror of polished metal going to rust.
She lit a candle in a tin holder, and Inman carried all of it out and spread it on the washboard at the end of the porch.
Only a weather-beaten washboard along with an exposed edge from its rusted tub was visible in the untamed field.
But, it was the train whistle noise and the rusted pail and washboard impaled through the porch railings that commanded his attention, along with the sudden explosion of the security light on the other side of the oak tree.
She licked her lips and dropped her gaze, only to be seduced by his washboard abs.
She went back down the hall to a janitorial room and found a bucket, washboard, and some soap, then went into the now-deserted shower room.
He sported a black spit curl over a beaten-down nose and showed a stomach still hard as a washboard, but he must have had ten years on the kid he was boxing.
Hicks man said something to Hal Goode about the stretch of road between Union and Drake Eye Springs being narrow and rough as a washboard, I thought Old Man Hawk would explode!
Sometimes Sarah rubbed fabric against the washboard so hard that it felt like it was grating her hand, and she especially hated the hot job of tending the clothes in the tub of boiling water they used to clean the huge bedsheets and tablecloths.
Polly, industriously rubbing a shirt on a washboard, thought about this.
Then they met again at the corner of Main and Railroad and rode home, pedaling over the washboards in the gravel.
The car was still idling and the headlights were pointed forward along the dirt road, showing the washboards and the uneven grading.
She went back down the hall to a janitorial room and found a bucket, washboard, and some soap, then went into the now-deserted shower room.
Each of its lodgepole-pine timbers had been well picked and creosoted, adzed only slightly on top to form a washboard passage between the dark steep-roofed tunnel.
When Washboard played, the black women would dance around him as if their bodies had no bones and the white girls, fueled on sweet things with silly names-Black Russians were particularly popular-would try to imitate them.