Other forms: clotheslines
A clothesline is the rope in the garden where wet washing hangs to dry. Peg it on the clothesline, a full clothesline, the clothesline sagged.
Drying outdoors costs nothing and works better than any machine on a windy day, since wind matters more than warmth. Some American housing developments forbid one on the grounds that it looks poor, which has been fought over in several states.
1nounclotheslineThe rope where wet washing hangs to dry.
“She hung the wet sheets on the clothesline in the back garden.”
clothesline is a cord.
Also accepted in games: washing line
Clothes plus line. Line here means a cord, from Latin linea, a linen thread.
From clothes + line.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA