clothesline
/ˈkləʊðzlaɪn/US/ˈkloʊðzlaɪn/
clothesline noun: a rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.
Noun
clothesline (plural clotheslines)
- 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
- A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
- The act of knocking 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.
Verb
clothesline (third-person singular simple present clotheslines, present participle clotheslining, simple past and past participle clotheslined)
- To knock (a person) over by striking them across the neck or upper body with an outstretched arm, mimicking the motion of running into a low clothesline.
- The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.
- One beast jams out its arm, as if to clothesline me, jagged claws poised to take my head off at the neck. I let my feet fall from under me, throwing my legs forward, praying for some momentum, ducking and sliding, a mad limbo to freedom.2014, Jonathan Wood, No Hero, Titan Books, →ISBN
clothesline meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog
clothesline in Hindi
- clothesline, a rope wire or bamboo stalk to hang clothes from
- अरगनी aragnī
clothesline in Tamil
- a rope or cord for drying clothes
- கொடி koṭi
clothesline in Malayalam
- clothesline
- അഴ aḻa
clothesline in Tagalog
- a rope or cord for drying clothes
- yangyangan
More languagesFewer languages
- clothesline in Malay
- ampaian baju
Examples of clothesline in a sentence
- A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.
- I eventually found the source of the flutter, which came from clothes on a clothesline swaying with the wind.
- Series of clotheslines no-sold, so Haku tries backscratches, and, interestingly, that finally works.
Synonyms of clothesline
Forms of clothesline
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | clotheslines |
| alternative UK | clothes line |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | clotheslines |
| present participle | clotheslining |
| past participle | clotheslined |
| past | clotheslined |
Origin of clothesline
From clothes + line.
Questions about clothesline
- What does clothesline mean?
- Clothesline means a rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.
- What is clothesline in Hindi?
- Clothesline in Hindi is अरगनी (aragnī). See Clothesline meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is clothesline?
- Clothesline can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce clothesline?
- Clothesline is pronounced /ˈkləʊðzlaɪn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of clothesline?
- The plural of clothesline is clotheslines.
Words near clothesline in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clothesline (page history and authors); अरगनी (Hindi) (page history and authors); അഴ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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