clothesline

[klohz-lahyn, klohthz-]

noun

1. a strong, narrow rope, cord, wire, etc., usually stretched between two poles, posts, or buildings, on which clean laundry is hung to dry.

clothesline

/ ˈkləʊðzˌlaɪn /

noun

1. a piece of rope, cord, or wire on which clean washing is hung to dry or air

Word History and Origins

Origin of clothesline¹

First recorded in 1820–30; clothes + line ¹

Example Sentences

Inside the Airbnb, he was surprised to find a clothesline instead of a dryer.

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The long, thin spaghetti shape, he says, was an especially efficient way to dry the pasta, by hanging the strands on structures similar to clotheslines.

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Other first responders also offered accounts — of babies beheaded, or hung from a clothesline, or killed together in a nursery, or placed in an oven – which were later debunked by Israeli reporters.

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A strip of a mud-floored foyer packs in a kitchen, a few plastic chairs, two rope beds and fraying clotheslines.

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Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.

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