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washboard
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baseboard, mopboard, scrubboard, skirting board, washboard
baseboard
A flat projection from an interior wall or partition at the floor, covering the joint between the floor and wall and protecting the wall from kicking, mopping, etc. It may be plain or molded; a base, 4.
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Washboards are often dropped into the conversation by bores who haven't grown-up.
A guide to the lighter side of Merseyside; Revealing the quirkier ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
And then, in '93, we became the house band on Danny Baker's short-lived BBC1 Saturday night chat-show After All, where such notaries as Suggs, Alison Moyet, Nanci Griffith and Aimee Mann were introduced to the joys of playing their songs with washboards and bull-fiddles.
My 20-year love affair with the joy of skiffle by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
I can attest that it is almost solely the materials that make up the road that determine whether or not it will develop washboards.
Road worries by Buelke, Don; Coats, David A.; Allen, David T. / Science News
 
 
 
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