WASHBOARD


Meaning of WASHBOARD in English

noun

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A fork and a couple of shining spoons lay beside it, along with the washboard and scrubbing brush.

He was massive, monumental, lacking only the ideal washboard stomach.

Henry stayed up quite late and Fred gave him a lesson on his old washboard .

If Miss Bingham's idea for the band came to anything Henry just might ask him about playing that washboard with thimbles.

Respect for the past does not mean a reliance on fiddle and washboard .

Stove-blacking, coal-scuttle filling and vigorous work with the washboard were definitely out.

They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were raw, and wrung it out by hand.

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