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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clothesline
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A clothesline ran parallel to the back fence and Marina stood there hanging diapers.
▪ A Cabbage Patch doll dries on the clothesline.
▪ Alma made them string clothesline around so she could stretch blanketing over him and down to the floor without its touching him.
▪ And then one day you discover a length of clothesline.
▪ Benjy returned to the clothesline with three spongy, muddy clothespins.
▪ He was in the backyard hanging the dripping wash on the sagging clothesline.
▪ Shirts and sheets were fluttering from makeshift clotheslines.
▪ The clothesline creaked, then sagged closer to the ground.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clothesline

Clothesline \Clothes"line`\ (kl[=o]z"l[imac]n`), n. A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Wiktionary
clothesline

n. A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry vb. To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.

WordNet
clothesline

n. a cord on which clothes are hung to dry

Wikipedia
Clothesline (disambiguation)

Clothesline is an apparatus for laundry drying. It may also refer to:

  • Someone striking another person across the face or neck with an extended arm, which is

:*A set of professional wrestling moves called the clothesline

:*A form of illegal contact in North American football that would be penalized as a personal foul

  • Clothes-Line, an early television documentary on fashion history (1937).
  • " Clothesline Creative", a screen printing studio and clothing brand in Florida.
  • Clothes Line Saga, a Bob Dylan song from The Basement Tapes

Usage examples of "clothesline".

He was a short man, well past his prime and he carried an enormous brown paperboard suitcase tied with clothesline.

An early experiment with public housing for war veterans left its shoreline marred by cul-de-sac housing developments the color of pumice, each one a collection of four buildings housing sixteen units and curved in on each other in a horseshoe, skeletal metal clothesline structures rising out of pools of rust in the cracked tar.

But the man pulled out some clothesline and ordered Cecelia to tie up Bryan.

I paused in the doorway, arms full of linen undertunics fresh from the clothesline.

He took the clothesline from his shoulder and returned it to its place.

In the morning they found her hanging from a clothesline attached to the roof beam.

Suddenly a cackle of laughter, goblin laughter, sounded from the trees beyond the clothesline, and Gosset broke and ran toward the house, slamming the door behind him.

As they did, three goblins capered out of the forest, howling and laughing and plucking caps from the clothesline and stuffing them in a sack.

Jonathan could see Gosset in the upstairs window, watching as the goblins stole his hats, then pulled down the clothesline and deliberately knotted up the thing, thereafter dropping it down the well.

She rolled the coated cones in Northeast Songbird Mixture and laid them end to end upon an old cookie sheet to cure a bit before she hung them avail ably from the privet hedge and the clothesline with Christmas ornament hooks.

The scavenging squirrels were too heavy to climb and sit upon the privet-they swayed, they swooped-but they had learned to cling to and inch along the clothesline, perilously upside down yet agile as French Riviera diamond thieves, to attain the prize.

And according to Judy, Laurie had owned both a blue bandanna and a clothesline similar to those found at the crime scene.

There, sure enough, hanging hats on a clothesline in a weedy yard hidden from the river by scrub oak and lemon-leaf, was Lonny Gosset the milliner.

I made myself clear, or do I need to find that clothesline you picked up at the drugstore last night?

Attached to this clothesline, at approximate pew-seat intervals, were golden safety pins.