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washboard

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1. washboard - Noun

2. washboard - Verb

Meaning

A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.

A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.

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A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double. Jennifer Tilly

Cody Dickinson, a member of hill country blues bands the North Mississippi Allstars and Country Hill Revue plays an electrified washboard on a self-written track, "Psychedelic Sex Machine". Source: Internet

In cartoons, a pencil being dragged down a washboard may be used to simulate the sound of a sputtering engine. Source: Internet

A washboard and tub were usually brought for washing clothes. Source: Internet

History The washboard as a percussion instrument ultimately derives from the practice of hamboning as practiced in West Africa and brought to the new world by African slaves. Source: Internet

In a four-beat measure, the washboard will stroke on the 2-beat and the 4-beat. Source: Internet

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