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Washboard   /wˈɑʃbˌɔrd/   Listen
Washboard

noun
1.
Device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on.
2.
Protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side.  Synonym: splashboard.





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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


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