Washboard

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Washboard \Wash"board`\, n.
     1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in
        washing them.
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     2. A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the


        walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
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     3. (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}. --Mar. Dict.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  washboard
       n 1: device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes
            on
       2: protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a
          gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side [syn: {splashboard}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "washboard":
     Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop,
     brick, broken ground, broken water, cement, chop, cobble,
     cobblestone, concrete, corduroy, corduroy road, corrugation, curb,
     curbing, curbstone, edgestone, flag, flagging, flagstone,
     goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, gravel, horripilation,
     kerb, kerbstone, lop, macadam, pavement, pavestone, paving,
     paving stone, ripple, road metal, rough, sandpaper, stone,
     tarmacadam, tile