Washboard

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A board having a corrugated surface on which clothes can be rubbed in the process of laundering.
  • n. Music A similar board used as a percussion instrument.
  • n. A board fastened to a wall at the floor; a baseboard.
  • n. Nautical A thin plank fastened to the side of a boat or to the sill of a port to keep out the sea and the spray.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed
  • n. such a board used as a simple percussion instrument
  • n. a board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard
  • n. A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road, mostly occurring at corners; which is caused by wear from traffic, erosion from wet weather, or poor grading.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
  • n. A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A board or wooden frame having a ribbed or corrugated surface of sheet-metal, vulcanite, earthenware, or wood, used as a scrubber in washing clothing by hand.
  • n. Nautical, a broad thin plank sometimes fixed on the top of the gunwale of a boat or other small vessel's side, to prevent the sea from breaking over; also, a piece of plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose. Also called waste-board.
  • n. A board carried around the walls of a room at the bot torn. Also called mopboard, skirting-board.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on
  • n. protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    device    protection    protective cover    protective covering   
    Variant
    wasteboard   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mopboard   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    grungy    queasy    high-occupancy    ripped-open    wart-like   
     
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