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Washboard   Listen
noun
Washboard  n.  
1.
A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
2.
A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
3.
(Naut.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; called also wasteboard.





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"Washboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... was he drawing? Tom was quite warm now, and wanted something new to be going forward. It was certainly more agreeable to have an ill-natured humpback as a companion than to stand looking out of the study window at the rain, and kicking his foot against the washboard in solitude; something would happen every day,— "a quarrel or something"; and Tom thought he should rather like to show Philip that he had better not try his spiteful tricks on him. He suddenly walked across the hearth and ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... last of rest and easy traveling for the girls. The forest that he struck into seemed ribbed like a washboard with deep ravines so steep of slope as to make precarious travel. Mostly he kept to the bottom where dry washes afforded a kind of trail. But it was necessary to cross these ravines when they were too long to be headed, and this ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey


Words linked to "Washboard" :   protective covering, splashboard, watercraft, device, protection, vessel


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