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词汇 clothesline
释义 clothesline
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkləʊðz.laɪn/ us /ˈkloʊðz.laɪn/
a length of rope or string from which wet clothes are hung, usually outside, to dry(通常指户外的)晾衣绳
 
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Cleaning clothes
airer
boil
care label
cleaner
clothes brush
clothes horse
delouse
handwash
iron box
ironing
ironing board
launder
spin-dry
spin-dryer
starch
steam iron
trouser press
tumble dryer
washing
washing machine
clothesline
verb[ T ]
 informaluk /ˈkləʊðz.laɪn/ us /ˈkloʊz.laɪn/
in American football, rugby, and some other sports, to hold out your arm at neck level to knock down another player, in a way that is usually against the rules:
He stuck out his arm and clotheslined him.
Hudson was clotheslined while running under the posts.
Wallis clotheslined him.
A video has appeared on social media of him accidentally clotheslining the England centre.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

American football
attempt
audibilize
back judge
blitz
blocker
bootleg
dime
flare
formation
forward pass
forward progress
free play
free safety
point after
pulling blocker
pump-fake
punt
return specialist
returner
turnover

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Rugby
clothesline
adjective[ before noun ]
 informaluk /ˈkləʊðz.laɪn/ us /ˈkloʊz.laɪn/
in American football, rugby, and some other sports, used to describe an action in which a player holds out their arm at neck level to knock down another player, in a way that is usually against the rules:
clothesline hitHe cut down the Dallas player with a clothesline hit.
clothesline tackleHe escaped any on-field sanction after a clothesline tackle on the All Blacks scrum half.
He was fined by the NFL but not suspended for his clothesline hit.
He was sent off for a clothesline tackle.
At one point, he resorted to a clothesline tackle to stop the Rangers winger.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

American football
attempt
audibilize
back judge
blitz
blocker
bootleg
dime
flare
formation
forward pass
forward progress
free play
free safety
point after
pulling blocker
pump-fake
punt
return specialist
returner
turnover

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Rugby
Examples from literature

A minute or so later he returned with a length of clothesline. 
By way of reply she climbed up the post of the clothesline. 
One day he went down to the lake with a piece of clothesline. 
So the two little girls ran to get the clothesline and soon they were jumping rope. 
The clothesline was pulled tight between two posts and the sheets put over the line. 

clothesline | American Dictionary


clothesline
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkloʊzˌlɑɪn, ˈkloʊðz-/
a length of rope from which wet clothes are hung, usually outside, to dry

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Angle gained the early advantage with repeated short-arm clotheslines.
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The skids were scratch built from steel parts while wire bracing was added, made from clothesline to intentionally create a flimsy look.
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Her inventions included a number of practical household devices including a folding clothesline for use in flats.
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To make sure she was really dead he used a length of clothesline.
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The algorithm proceeds by multiplying the three selected branches by a common random amount, akin to stretching or shrinking the clothesline.
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Ramon quickly turned the match around with several clotheslines.
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They are given two minutes to collect provided fabrics hanging from clotheslines in a storeroom, and only one day to complete the outfit.
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She hung the dress on her clothesline and the pink powder blew away.
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Players are prohibited to impede the natural spin of the clothesline in any way.
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The ladies had to stand guard at their clotheslines to keep the livestock from ruining their laundry.
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Both men knocked each other down after both hit clotheslines on each other.
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They proceeded to the prisons infirmary and stole bed sheets and clothes left out to dry on clotheslines.
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Other examples include clothesline, chalk line, anchor line (rode), stern line, fishing line, marline and so on.
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Typically, a lariat is used as a finishing move while the clothesline is simply a basic strike attack.
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They resemble the empty carcasses of clothes hanging from a clothesline, much more than they do actual men.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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