clothes prop

British  

noun

1. a long wooden pole with a forked end, used to raise a line of washing to enable it to catch the breeze

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Example Sentences

"You keep it there," said the girl—for there was no man on the place at the time—"while I go and get the clothes' prop."

From Project Gutenberg

We killed it with the clothes' prop and put it under an inverted wash-tub, whence I proudly drew it in the evening when the doctor came to dinner.

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Cambric they brought from Cambrai in France, and calico from Calicut in India—the world was hunted high and low for spoil to deck these gorgeous, stiff, buckramed people, so that under all this load of universal goods one might hardly hope to find more than a clothes prop; in fact, one might more easily imagine the overdressed figure to be a marvellous marionette than a decent Englishwoman.

From Project Gutenberg

He rigged up a tremenjous long pole, like your mawther's clothes' prop on washing day and tied a string to the top of it, and baited the end of the string with an empty bottle of Ould Tom, and then sat hisself down on the end of the jetty, same as a man that's going fishing.

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When he got there the old woman was in the garden knocking apples off a tree with a clothes prop.

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