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Definition of Clotheslines
1. clothesline [v] - See also: clothesline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clotheslines
Literary usage of Clotheslines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problem-oriented Drug Enforcement: A Community-Based Approach for Effective by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"In addition, clotheslines were improperly strung at neck and shin height to trip
... As for the clotheslines problem, officers discovered that neither ..."
2. Prison Conditions in the Soviet Union: A Report of Facilities in Russia and by Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.), Abner J. Mikva, Robert Kushen, Herman Schwartz (1991)
"Loaded clotheslines were hanging from the ceiling, blocking the already dim lights
in the cell, a common phenomenon. Here too, the air was full of cigarette ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"In support of his plea, testified that he had sold about $100 worth of the pinless
clotheslines covered by his contract In the counties mentioned, ..."
4. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"... and follow the laundry business to such an extent that they quite effloresce
with wet shirts, and are seen through a lattice of clotheslines. ..."
5. Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Matthew LUCKIESH (1922)
"Suppose two horizontal wires or clotheslines about fifty feet away and one a few
feet beyond the other. On looking at these no double images are visible and ..."
6. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"... her cloathes on : the use of hair for clotheslines is illustrated by Tempest, iv.
I. 237'Mistress line, is not this my jerkin ? . . . now, jerkin, ..."
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