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washline
n. (context US English) washing line, clothesline
Usage examples of "washline".
Then the washline was cut, and with it two of the longest ladders were lashed together as quickly as possible.
Now his name came up whenever a washline dropped the laundry in the dirt or a loose saddle girth deposited a farmer in the road.
There was no need here for the bubbling vats and the dripping washlines of the old nursery off Caris Yard, nor the space.