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Definitions: Washboard |
WashboardNoun1. Device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on. 2. Protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "washboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
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Computing | A defect which may be found in films exposed on rotary cameras characterized by alternate bands of greater and lesser density, the axis of the bands being perpendicular to the axis of the film. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To see a washboard in your dreams, is indicative of embarrassment. If you see a woman using one, it predicts that you will let women rob you of energy and fortune. A broken one, portends that you will come to grief and disgraceful deeds through fast living. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A strake of thin planking fitted above the gunwale in open boats or around the edge of a cockpit. It increases the freeboard and keeps out the spray. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The closely ridged surface of a face or edge resulting from faulty action of the saw or planing cutter. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Horizontal fine laps or ripples, usually on the walls of the container. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The washboard is mounted in a wooden frame while the frottoir is made only from the metal ribbing and is hung around the neck and called the Cajun Rub-Board Vest.
The frottoir is played as a stroked percussion instrument, often in a band with a drummer, while the washboard generally is a replacement for drums.
However, in a jazz setting, the washboard can also be played with thimbles on all fingers, tapping out much more complex rhythms, as in the Washboard Rhythm Kings, a full-sized band.
Some washboard players may add other small percussion devices to the washboard, such as a cymbal, woodblock, or cow bell, which can periodically be struck to vary the effect.
A frottoir is played with a stoking instrument (usually thimble-gloves or a pair of bottle-openers) in each hand. In a 4-beat measure, the Frottoir will be stroked 8 to 16 times. It plays more like a Latin percussion instrument, rather than as a drum.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Washboard."
Synonym: WashboardSynonym: splashboard (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: weatherboard (food & agriculture), weather-board. |
Crosswords: Washboard |
| English words defined with "washboard": Wasteboard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "washboard": Washboard. (references) |
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Lyrics | Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile, (DOWN ON THE CORNER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) Mama scrubbed our clothes on a washboard ever day ("Coal Miner's Daughter"; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) Mommy scrubbed our clothes on a washboard ever' day (Coal Miner's Daughter; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in front of store, near New Iberia, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Negro musicians in car playing accordion and washboard and singing. Near New Iberia, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in automobile. Near New Iberia, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Folk musical instruments including homemade horns, homemade drum, and washboard.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hypnotist directing group of people to do unusual activities: woman playing washboard, woman riding man, men using brooms as musical instruments, policeman using sausage as weapon.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Scraping washboard once. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Washboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Washboard" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
washboard abs | 46 |
washboard | 42 |
get washboard abs | 21 |
washboard stomach | 18 |
washboard festival | 8 |
columbus company washboard | 5 |
antique washboard | 4 |
company national washboard | 3 |
glass washboard | 3 |
hank washboard | 3 |
co columbus washboard | 3 |
abs gallery washboard | 3 |
134.com company national no washboard | 3 |
festival international washboard | 2 |
get stomach washboard | 2 |
abs picture washboard | 2 |
instrument washboard | 2 |
columbus washboard | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "washboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrugë me hulli kryq-e-tërthor, dërrasë për larje rrobash. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цокъл (dado, die, pedestal, socket, socle), перваз (baseboard, border, edge, ledge, sill, skirt, skirting, skirting board, trim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 防浪板. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vaskebraet (ladder), vaskebraedt (ladder), vaskebrætdensitet, vaskebræt, skvaetbord, skvætbord (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), korrugering (corrugation, ribbing, rippling, washboarding), bølgedannelse (corrugation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wasplankvorm, wasplanksnede, zetboorden, zetboord (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), vloeiplanken, opboeisel (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), golving (corrugation, settle mark, settle wave, shadow, waviness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | varpelaita (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), varpe (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), varalaita (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), tien pinnan aaltomaisuus (corrugation), poimuisuus (corrugation), pesulauta-aallot (ladder), lisälaita (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vagues (waviness), planche laver, peau de crapaud, fargues, fargue (wash strake, waste board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Waschbrett (ladder, wash board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυματοειδής αυλάκωση (corrugation), ραβδόμορφη ανωμαλία πριστής επιφάνειας, σελίς, σελίδα (folio, page, wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), σανίδα για το τρίψιμο των ρούχων κατά την πλύση, πέλα, οριζόντιες πτυχώσεις γυαλικών (ladder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שפשפת (doormat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mosódeszka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | superficie a pelle di rospo (ladder), rugosit (channel roughness, roughness, rugosity, texture), falchette, falchetta (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), falche, falca (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 洗濯板 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"たくいた. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 빨래판. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ashboardway tábua de lavar roupa (ladder), tábua de lavar, ressaltos (quilted, rough-sawn), pele de sapo (drag, hogging, ladder, orange peel), ondulação (buckling, cockling, corrugation, crimp, crimpling, curl, curling, dimple, disturbance, drift, fold, friezing, friz, frizz, gurgitation, Popple, ripple, swell, swim, undulation, wave, waviness, wrinkle), linhas de travagem da gota (ladder), borda de tempo (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard). (various references) колейный износ дороги, плинтус (baseboard, plinth, skirting, skirting board). (various references) daska za pranje rublja. (various references) piel de sapo (drag, hogging, ladder, orange peel, smear), ondulada (having a ripple, rippled), ondulaciones, ondulación (batter, cobble, cockle(cast and float glass), corrugation, crimp, drift, hammer, ripple, rippling, settle mark, settle wave, shadow, swim, undulation, wave), guardaguas, guardagua (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), falcas, falca (wash strake, waste board, weatherboard), arruga horizontal (ladder), ásperas (ladder). (various references) ytojämnhet, tvättbräde (corrugation, rippling), tvättbräda (ladder), spår (clue, corrugation, dimple for a shot pin, evidence, groove, hint, impression, line, metals, notch, scan, scent, scrap, sign, slot, spoor, taint, touch, trace, track, tracking, trail, undercut, vestige, way, whiff), korrugering (corrugation, rippling). (various references) tümsekli yol, dalga siperi, çamaşır yıkama tahtası. (various references) планшир (gunnel, gunwale), дошка для прання. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "washboard": washboards. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "washboard" (pronounced wÄ"shbô'rd) |
| 5 | -sh b ô' r d | dashboard. |
| 4 | -b ô' r d | aboveboard, baseboard, billboard, blackboard, cardboard, checkerboard, chessboard, chipboard, clapboard, clipboard, containerboard, dartboard, fiberboard, fibreboard, fingerboard, floorboard, hardboard, headboard, inboard, keyboard, linerboard, mopboard, onboard, outboard, overboard, paperboard, pegboard, plasterboard, pressboard, scoreboard, seaboard, shipboard, skateboard, smorgasbord, snowboard, springboard, storyboard, surfboard, switchboard, wallboard. |
| 3 | -ô' r d | broadsword, clavichord, concord, harpsichord, landlord, notochord, overlord, underinsured, warlord. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-h-o-r-s-w" | |
-3 letters: abhors, aboard, abroad, adsorb, awards, bashaw, boards, broads, dobras, hoards, shadow, sradha. | |
-4 letters: abash, abhor, award, awash, bards, bawds, board, boars, boras, brads, brash, braws, broad, brows, darbs, dhows, dobra, dorsa, drabs, draws, haars, hards, hoard, hoars, horas, roads, sabra, sarod, shard, sowar, sward, sword, wards, woads, words. | |
-5 letters: aahs, abas, abos, ados. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-h-o-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: washboards. | |
+2 letters: handbarrows. | |
+4 letters: weatherboards. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 73 68 62 6F 61 72 64 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- ... .... -... --- .- .-. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110011 01101000 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a s h b o a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0073 0068 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)576785746881678470 |
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