First the back takes the click of the whip like a damned washboard, and you see the ridges rise and go purple and red, and the man has his breath knocked clean out of him with every blow.
"No Defense, Volume 2."
Gilbert Parker
"Your whack's in the kettle, Jessop," said Tom, as I stepped in over the washboard.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
All at once, Plummer, whose wheel it was, stepped over the starboard washboard, into the fo'cas'le.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson