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A clothes line, also spelled clothesline, also known as a wash line, is a device for hanging clothes on for the purpose of drying or airing out the articles. It is made of any type of rope , cord, wire, or twine that has been stretched between two points (e.g. two posts), outdoors or indoors, above ground level.
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A clothespin (US English) or clothes peg (UK English) is a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying, usually on a clothes line. Clothespins come in many different designs. Clothespins come in many different designs.
A clothes line is an apparatus on which laundry is hung to dry, usually outdoors. Clothes line or clothesline may also refer to: Clothesline, a set of moves in professional wrestling; Clothes-Line, an early television documentary on fashion history (1937)
Clothes-Line was an early BBC television programme broadcast live in six parts between 30 September and 3 December 1937. It is notable for being the first television programme dedicated to the history of fashion . [ 1 ]
A human body heats and humidifies clothing it is wearing. Airing clothing after wearing dries it out again. [2] Airing is used to reduce smells [2] [3] and allow clothing to be washed less frequently. [4] Reduced microbial growth aside, a common source of smells is volatile organic compounds. As they are volatile, they will tend to evaporate ...
Modern hanging clothes horse with pulley system. An overhead clothes airer, also known variously as a 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.
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.