clothes-peg

American  

[klohz-peg, klohthz-] / ˈkloʊzˌpɛg, ˈkloʊðz- /

noun

British.

1. a clothespin.

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clothes peg British  

noun

1. a small wooden or plastic clip for attaching washing to a clothesline

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Etymology

Origin of clothes-peg

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

The mere notion of the passage and the clothes-peg and the umbrella-stand annihilated him.

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Out he flew, and perched on a clothes-peg in my bulkhead, and said— “Troubled wi’ you.

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At the same time the squatters, basket-makers, reed-cutters, clothes-peg makers, etc, who resided in the Swamp which the rat had caused, had considerably increased in numbers, and were always called, after their former chief, by the name of Baskette.

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With the utmost rapidity he took out a bunch of slim reeds, pulled them to 120 different lengths, the large ones at the back, the small ones in front, and caressed the whole into a wooden prong looking like a clothes-peg, and arranged it in a kind of vase made out of a circular section of bamboo.

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Dear Diana after hounds a riding Like—a clothes-peg on a clothes-line?

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