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
I suppose if you got to the North Pole you’d expect to see a clothes pole with the clothes line wrapped around it, ready for use.”
From The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance by Allen Chapman
She saw an old hemp hammock hanging from a clothes pole on the drying-place, and had a sudden idea.
From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Cutty waved a hand cheerfully if vaguely toward his guiding star, picked up the chair, commandeered the clothes pole, and silently manoeuvred to the wall of the warehouse.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
These latter, during the day, are suspended upon the clothes pole previously described and illustrated.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
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