Other forms: clothespins
A clothespin is the small wooden clip that holds washing on the line. A bag of clothespins, peg it with a clothespin, wooden clothespins.
Britain says clothes peg, and the old British kind is a single split piece of wood with no spring at all. The sprung sort was patented in America in 1853, and the design has barely changed since.
1nounclothespinThe small wooden clip that holds washing on the line.
“The wind blew my shirt off the line because I'd forgotten the clothespins.”
clothespin is a clip.
Also accepted in games: clothes peg, peg
Clothes plus pin, an American formation. Britain uses peg for the same object.
From clothes + pin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA