Crossword clues for clothespin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clothespin \Clothes"pin`\ (? or ?), n. A forked piece of wood or plastic, or a small device with a spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
Wiktionary
n. A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying. vb. (context transitive English) To affix with a clothespin.
WordNet
n. wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline [syn: clothes pin, clothes peg]
Wikipedia
A clothespin (US English), clothes peg (UK English) or peg (AU English) is a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying, usually on a clothes line. Clothespins often come in many different designs.
Clothespin is a weathering steel sculpture, by Claes Oldenburg. It is located at Centre Square, 1500 Market Street, Philadelphia. It is designed to appear as a large black clothespin. Oldenburg is noted for his attempts to democratize art, and the location of Clothespin, above SEPTA's City Hall subway station, allows thousands of viewers to view it on a daily basis. It was dedicated June 25, 1976. Made of Corten steel, Clothespin is praised by art critics for its velvety texture and weathered, warm reddish-brown color. The silvery steel "spring" part the two textured work resembles the numerals "76", apt for the United States Bicentennial year. Tying in Philadelphia's colonial heritage with its difficult present, Clothespin addresses the city's civic issues and attempts to close the gap between income levels within the city through its universally recognized form. The design has been likened to the "embracing couple" in Constantin Brâncuși's sculpture The Kiss in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
It was commissioned in May 1974, by developer Jack Wolgin, as part of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority's one percent for art program.
Usage examples of "clothespin".
His tools were neatly lined up: a pair of needle-nose pliers, two ice picks, a knife, a ruler, a container of glycerin, and loops of cane held together with clothespins.
Evon saw her there, with the clothespins in her mouth, securing a tattersall shirt or a sheet to the line, standing her ground, asserting her intentions, while the wash gave in and snapped on the wind.
There were nine of them lined up like clothespins, each of them swinging her heels against his paint job.
On the top ends, I can see the bite marks the clothespins made when the sheets were hung out to dry.
Content to let the supposition stand, Peter tested the spring on one of the clothespins holding the bark to the basket frame, then eased it back into place.
He leaned over and picked up the troublesome clothespin, then held it out to her.
I filled the bowl with my own mixture, and then picked a burning charcoal with a pair of tweezers I had made from a wooden clothespin and had been saving for this occasion.
Like now, as she pulled the photographs down from her clothespins, she remembered finding Devlin in her makeshift darkroom at the mansion, looking at the drying prints.
And I have additionally stove blacking, laundry bluing, wash powders, and these very fine clothespins that have a patent pending for the superior spring mechanism that they employ.
Silver gained speed slowly, the quickening clickety-ciack of the Bicycle playing cards clothespinned to the spokes marking the increase.
The cards clothespinned to the fender-struts stopped firing single shots and started machine-gunning.
He rolled up to them doing perhaps twenty miles an hour, the playing cards clothespinned to the fender-struts roaring.
Today is Monday and Pootie found herself short of clothespins to hang the washing.
When he put the pump back, he checked the playing cards and the clothespins.
I quickly snapped the clothespin onto her nipple causing her to scream as the unrelenting pressure was transferred to her aching tits. I waited until the pain in her breast had become a dull ache, and then quickly did the same thing to her left breast.