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  2. Overhead clothes airer - Wikipedia

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    Modern hanging clothes horse with pulley system. An overhead clothes airer, also known variously as a Sheila Maid ,ceiling clothes airer, laundry airer, pulley airer, laundry rack, or laundry pulley, is a ceiling-mounted mechanism to dry clothes. It is also known as, in the North of England, a creel and in Scotland, a pulley.

  3. Clothes horse - Wikipedia

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    There are many types of clothes horses: large, stationary outdoor ones; smaller, folding portable racks; and wall-mounted drying racks. A clothes horse is similar in usage and function to a clothes line, and used as an alternative to the powered clothes dryer. An electric alternative exists, usually known as a heated clothes airer.

  4. Hills Hoist - Wikipedia

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    A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons , and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.

  5. Mangle (machine) - Wikipedia

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    Gradually, the electric washing machine's spin cycle rendered this use of a mangle obsolete, and with it the need to wring out water from clothes mechanically. Box mangles were large and primarily intended for pressing laundry smooth; they were used by wealthy households, large commercial laundries, and self-employed "mangle women". Middle ...

  6. Washboard (laundry) - Wikipedia

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    Woman on an Israeli kibbutz using a washboard to do laundry. A washboard or a scrubbing-board [1] is a tool designed for hand washing clothing. With mechanized cleaning of clothing becoming more common by the end of the 20th century, the washboard has become better known for its secondary use as a musical instrument.

  7. Clothes hanger - Wikipedia

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    A clothes hanger, coat hanger, or coathanger, or simply a hanger, is a hanging device in the shape/contour of: Human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of a coat , jacket , sweater , shirt , blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles , with a lower bar for the hanging of trousers or skirts .

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