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Rarewashboards
The correct spelling is washboards.
How to pronounce washboards
noun
Say it like: Was-hboa-rds
The correct spelling is washboards. A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed.
- 2.Such a board used as a simple percussion instrument.
- 3.A board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard.
- 4.A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road caused by interaction between traffic and road surface.
- 5.Baseboard; skirting board
verb
- 1.To produce a rippled texture on a surface.
- 2.To play a washboard.
- 3.(bees) To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax.
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