clothes pole

American  

noun

1. a pole used for supporting a clothesline.

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clothes pole British  

noun

1. Also called: clothes post.  a post to which a clothesline is attached

2. another term for clothes prop

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Etymology

Origin of clothes pole

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

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 Chapman, Allen

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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

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

“You discovered the North Pole and the South Pole and the clothes pole and the Atlantic Ocean and Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and you’ve got them all down in your little book.”

From Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese