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washboardwash‧board /ˈwɒʃbɔːd $ ˈwɒːʃbɔːrd, ˈwɑːʃ-/ noun [countable] - 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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