clothes pole
Americannoun
noun
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Also called: clothes post. a post to which a clothesline is attached
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another term for clothes prop
Etymology
Origin of clothes pole
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
Example Sentences
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There was a lean clothes pole in the back of the yard from which six washlines on pulleys connected with six kitchen windows.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Somewhere he had picked up a long round clothes pole or the handle to some street worker’s outfit.
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Chapman, Allen
The thin lips, when opened, exposed two rows of decayed black teeth, and the rags on his shoulders swayed backward and forward as if they were hung on a clothes pole.
From Creatures That Once Were Men by Gorky, Maksim
They had been trying to let him down into the fireplace, and when he got stuck they had poked at him with a clothes pole until they had mussed him up considerably.
From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George
"Th' nation," said Mr. Dooley, "that fights with a couplin' pin extinds its bordhers at th' cost iv th' nation that fights with a clothes pole."
From Mr. Dooley's Philosophy by Dunne, Finley Peter
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