Meaning

3 senses
  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.

    Wäscheleine

    бельева́я верёвкаbelʹjevája verjóvka

    a cord on which clothes are hung to dry

  2. A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.

  3. (Canada, US, informal)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.

Examples

23 sentences
  1. My shirt is drying on the clothesline.

  2. Tom hung his clothes on the clothesline.

  3. Tom hung the laundry on the clothesline.

  4. Tom strung a clothesline between the two trees.

    ruТом натянул между двумя деревьями верёвку для сушки белья. — marafon

  5. Tom hung the wet clothes on the clothesline.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a rope or cord for drying clothes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a rope or cord for drying clothes:

Origin

From clothes + line.

From clothes + line.

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