(n.) A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The popularity of the motorcycle, specifically trail bike riding, in the past several years has produced an increasing incidence of severe "clothesline" injuries to the larynx and trachea.
(2) Freshly inked shirts hang from clotheslines strung across the space, delicately balanced on window ledges and strewn across chairs.
(3) They keep their dogs by their side as they walk, not letting out so much leash as to trip a distracted commuter or clothesline some unsuspecting child.
(4) George Eighmey, of Compassion and Choice, the body that originally fought for the law and now helps people towards decisions in dying, told me of a woman who had had a double mastectomy and made a display of her three or four dozen bras on a clothesline, and of a man who had had bladder trouble who filled a row of potties with petunias and pansies - all part of trying to make illness and even death more homely, more bearable.
(5) Islamkhan was also on the ugly end of a clothesline to the throat from Bartosz Kapustka, after which Kamil Glik received a yellow card for encouraging the Kazahkstan skipper to get up by nudging him with his boot, while talking to the referee: a brassy move and no mistake.
(6) Six patients presented with blunt trauma, four as a result of motor vehicle accidents, one from a clothesline injury, and one from a crush injury.
(7) I had one farmer tell me this is like getting all of your cash assets, put them on a clothesline, waiting for the wind to blow them away,” he said.
Clothespin
Definition:
(n.) A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two, how do you ask voters to adopt your principles when you hold them at arm’s length from your body with a clothespin on your nose?
(2) The clothespin traction technique described in this article is simple, inexpensive, and offers high patient compliance when used by the patient outside the clinic.