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  • noun Plural form of clothesline.

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Examples

  • She says she found her way to this blog after doing a search for "clotheslines," where she was led to this post.

    SouleMama 2009

  • The babies will be kept hanging on clotheslines or in special intensive care units for about four weeks until they are ready and able to fly again.

    WATCH: Orphaned Baby Bats Rescued The Huffington Post 2011

  • Sheets of newspaper plaster a wooden partition, and clotheslines swoop overhead.

    Creative Cirko De Mente evokes . . . well, it's hard to say Celia Wren 2010

  • Customize var doubleclick_ad_params = 'wg = 2; wa = 33; wc = US; wac = mb; wac = ah; wac = hw; wac = ct; wi = role-playing; wi = games; wi = science; wi = fiction; jid = 16131782; kw = permaculture; kw = sustainability; kw = sustainable; kw = agriculture; kw = chickens; kw = technology; kw = clotheslines; kw = poverty;!

    Chickens vs. property values - STLtoday.com apollosdtr 2009

  • Pendleton the remorseless Bichon Frise, who saunters down the sidewalk on his 12-foot leash and then clotheslines you ankle-high.

    Have We All Gone to the Dogs? Joe Queenan 2012

  • The babies will be kept hanging on clotheslines or in special intensive care units for about four weeks until they are ready and able to fly again.

    WATCH: Orphaned Baby Bats Rescued The Huffington Post 2011

  • Deliverance came in a large steel box that rendered clotheslines obsolete and turned my father into a walking-talking spokesperson for the unsung plight of the housewife.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • The babies will be kept hanging on clotheslines or in special intensive care units for about four weeks until they are ready and able to fly again.

    Baby Bats Rescued After Being Orphaned By Australian Flood (VIDEO) Zoe Triska 2011

  • Deliverance came in a large steel box that rendered clotheslines obsolete and turned my father into a walking-talking spokesperson for the unsung plight of the housewife.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • You should get one of those little travel clotheslines.

    HLO Day 5: Plugging Up The Laundry Gap | Lifehacker Australia 2009

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