Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A board having a corrugated surface on which clothes can be rubbed in the process of laundering.
- noun Music A similar board used as a percussion instrument.
- noun A board fastened to a wall at the floor; a baseboard.
- noun 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.
- adjective Having rows of ridges or indentations similar to those of a washboard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun 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 . - noun A board carried around the walls of a room at the bot torn. Also called mopboard, skirting-board.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
- noun A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
- noun (Naut.) 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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a board with a
corrugated surface against whichlaundry may be rubbed - noun music such a board used as a simple
percussion instrument - noun nautical a board fastened along a ship's
gunwale to preventsplashing ; asplashboard - noun A stretch of
ripples orbumps on adirt orgravel road , mostly occurring atcorners ; which is caused bywear fromtraffic ,erosion fromwet weather , or poorgrading .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on
- noun protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side
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Examples
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Even a washboard is not a very likely find other than in an antique shop.
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As the researchers put it on the experiment’s website, The fact that our simplified systems produce washboard ripples is important since it shows that neither tyres nor suspension are necessary to obtain washboard roads, although of course, adding a spring, a dashpot, a tyre or an engine would affect the size of the bumps.
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They were now on dirt road, or rather rock road, a kind of washboard surface made by scraping away the thin topsoil.
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It imparts to the intestines an other abdominal organs a "washboard" motion which acts as a powerful stimulant to all the organs in the abdominal cavity.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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"The electric washboard, which is utterly Cody's instrument, is a thing unto itself
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