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What is another word for washboards?

Pronunciation: [wˈɒʃbɔːdz] (IPA)

Washboard is a term used for a corrugated board used for scrubbing clothes during laundering. It is also referred to as a ribbed board or a ridged board. Synonyms for washboards include scrub boards, grooved boards, ruffled boards, corrugated boards, and ribbed boards. Each of these terms refers to a board with ridges or grooves that aid in the washing process. Other lesser-known synonyms include glass washboards, mangle boards, and fluting washboards. Regardless of the specific term used, washboards have been used for centuries to scrub laundry and remain an essential tool for those who prefer to wash clothes by hand.
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What are the hypernyms for Washboards?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    home appliances, cleaning tools, Abrasive surfaces, Domestic objects, Laundry implements.

Usage examples for Washboards

We walk along the shore to watch Indian women busied in making a birchbark canoe and in washing clothes with washboards-the old order and the new.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron
The sides, washboards, and end decks were then built, the stones removed, and the centerboard case fitted.
"The Migrations of an American Boat Type"
Howard I. Chapelle
The negroes cannot work at all without their quota of cigars; "and looking out of the windows of a room in that magnificent hotel 'El Telegrafo,' the writer remembers to have caught a glimpse more than once of the negro women at work in the laundry, every one of whom held a long cigar in her mouth, and puffed incessantly as the clothes were manipulated upon the washboards."
"Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce"
E. R. Billings

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