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n. clothesline
Usage examples of "washing line".
Mending the washing line, bringing you little treats from under his father's greengrocery counter.
She noticed that Beverley Threadgold's washing line was pegged out with children's clothes, which swayed in the slight breeze.
When one thinks what happens to a perfectly ordinary pair of corduroy trousers when they inadvertently get left outside on the washing line overnight, one is amazed at how tidy she is.
He could see two small, white mounds of flesh enclosed by white lace, like those things his mom hung up on the washing line, and his pee-spout sprang up in an instant.
It drifted down and away whipped by the wind until it was a speck which finally vanished, and for various complicated reasons revolutionized the life of a family on Hounslow, over whose washing line it was discovered draped in the morning.
Vanessa stole some clothes from a washing line and they were wondering whether the village might have a telephone or how they could get to the tea plantation owner's villa when the sounds of vehicles sent a shiver of fear through her.
And I would be able to look out of a little window in the spacecraft and know that there was no one else near me for thousands and thousands of miles, which is what I sometimes pretend at night in the summer when I go and lie on the lawn and look up at the sky and I put my hands round the sides of my face so that I can't see the fence and the chimney and the washing line and I can pretend I'm in space.
She went into the store and spent half a penny on a small wood carving of two shirts on a washing line, and two postcards entitled ‘.