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washboard::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | splashboard |
| Type of | protection, protective cover, protective covering |
washboard::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | device |
Examples of washboard
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The trio claims to be the country's only sousaphone, washboard and guitar trio.
From the sacbee.com
In a four-beat measure, the washboard will stroke on the 2-beat and the 4-beat.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Their lithe limbs, upright posture and washboard stomachs all give cause for envy.
From the canberratimes.com.au
She'd wash that man right out of her hair if it weren't for the washboard abs.
From the time.com
I am assuming they are trying to improve the road, but now it is like a washboard.
From the ocregister.com
After all that money on the personal trainer, still no washboard pecs to speak of.
From the guardian.co.uk
The black man has a floppy hat and wears a washboard strung across his torso.
From the post-gazette.com
That's why he said he's taking a washboard from his office wall as his own memento.
From the fresnobee.com
She tore her stitches while playing a washboard with the Zydeco Crawdaddies.
From the stltoday.com
- Device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on
- Protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side
- A washboard is a tool designed for hand washing clothing. With mechanized cleaning of clothing becoming more common by the end of the 20th century, the washboard has become better known for its originally subsidiary use as a musical instrument.
- Washboarding is the name of the process which results in unmetalled (unpaved) roads developing a series of regular bumps with short spacing in the road surface. The result is called a washboard road. They are also known as corrugated roads.
- A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed; such a board used as a simple percussion instrument; a board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard; A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road, mostly occurring at corners; which is ...
- (Washboarding) When the bees on the landing board or the front of a hive are moving in unison resembling a line dance.
- (WASHBOARDING) When a stream descends a rock face in many small and rather evenly spaced drops.
- (Washboards) name given to M.U. cars, subway cars, and other equipment made with corrugated side panels that resembled washboards.^[115]
- (Washboards) Planks of wood fixed on top of the gunwales of the boat to give extra space on the deck.
