washboard
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noun
1.
a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
2.
a baseboard around the walls of a room.
3.
Also called splashboard. Nautical.
a.
a thin, broad plank fastened to and projecting above the gunwale or side of a boat to keep out the spray and sea.
b.
a similar board on the sill of a port.
adjective
4.
resembling a washboard in being rough and bumpy: a washboard roadbed.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a board having a surface, usually of corrugated metal, on which esp formerly, clothes were scrubbed |
| 2. | such a board used as a rhythm instrument played with the fingers in skiffle, Country and Western music, etc |
| 3. | a less common US word for skirting board |
| 4. | nautical |
| a. a vertical planklike shield fastened to the gunwales of a boat to prevent water from splashing over the side | |
| b. Also called: splashboard a shield under a port for the same purpose | |
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Example sentences
The rear end doesn't bounce around on washboard dirt roads the way it does on older trucks.
Chronic picking or rubbing of the skin behind the nail can cause a washboard nail.
Even when cornering on a washboard surface, the vehicle stayed planted.
He also recently started playing the washboard in a jazz band.
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