washboard
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- noun
- /ˈwɔːʃbɔːrd/
- Specialized
:
tablero de protección
- The vessel's washboard was essential for preventing flooding during rough seas.
- washboard road
- washboard gravel
- bus on a washboard
Examples
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The boat's washboard kept the water from splashing inside during the storm.
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Sailors installed a new washboard to protect the deck from waves hitting the side.
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The boats, which average about 12 m long, have had low washboards which enabled harvesting at most points around them.
Academic text (1996) -
We were bouncing over the washboard road, the bus scrunching loudly in low gear.
Fiction book (2002) -
The pickup shuddered over the washboard ruts, but Tucker didn't slow down.
Fiction book (2002) -
The dirt track to the Benally place proved to be smoother than the washboard gravel of Route 7028.
Fiction book (1993) -
"It was a rough dirt road and we bumped over its washboard surface, overgrown now with creepers and weeds.
Fiction book (1990) -
Tucker turned onto the pavement and accelerated, the truck sounding unnaturally quiet after the washboard gravel.
Fiction book (2002) -
As the jet circles Orlando, where Terry will transfer to Commuter Flight 7734, it bounces like a school bus on a washboard road.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A long flat piece of wood used for building or making furniture
A board on a boat's side that keeps waves from splashing onto the deck
A board along the side of a barge or flatboat used to form and protect the boat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word washboard for a boat comes from the two parts wash and board. Here wash means 'water washing over the side', so a washboard is a board put along the side to stop water from splashing onto the deck.