English

Clothes on clotheslines in Northern Germany

Alternative forms

• clothes line (UK)

Noun

clothesline ‎(plural clotheslines)

1. A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry

   Hang this towel out on the clothesline for me.

Synonyms

• washing line

See also

• clotheshorse

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Verb

clothesline ‎(third-person singular simple present clotheslines, present participle clotheslining, simple past and past participle clotheslined)

1. To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.

   The ref called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.

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