washboard|washboards in English

noun

board with corrugated surface for scrubbing laundry; musical instrument that looks like a washboard and used as a percussion instrument to produce a scratching sound (Music); thin and wide board placed on a boat's gunwale to prevent water from splashing over the side (Nautical); mopboard, baseboard, narrow board along the base of an interior wall; road surface that is uneven and rough (term used in USA & Canada)

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1. I mean, you're flat as a washboard.

2. How does one learn to play the washboard?

3. Blotto originated as the Star-Spangled Washboard Band in the '70s

4. Blotto originated as the Star-Spangled Washboard Band in the '70s

5. Simple washboards are the best way to close a Companionway? Nope, no, and nope

6. It's not like that electronic abs machine where, 15 minutes a month, you get washboard abs.

7. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were raw, and wrung it out by hand.

8. Customized white Coopered containers to your specifications; Historical reproduction accuracy- Our buckets, butter churns, washtubs, washboards, canteens, yokes, etc

9. Anthologizing the Historical and the Modern A Brooklyn Band Goes All the Way Back to the Washboard for Its Folk-Music Resurrection

10. 5 Most ants have a natural washboard and plectrum built into their abdomens that they can rub together to communicate using sound.

11. The band performed popular skiffle songs such as "Rock Island Line" and "Walking Cane", with Starkey raking a thimble across a washboard, creating primitive, driving rhythms.