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Clothespin

noun
1.
Wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline.  Synonyms: clothes peg, clothes pin.






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"Clothespin" Quotes from Famous Books



... or any of those places. Don't you know about him? How ignorant literary people can be! Why, he was the Amalgamated Clothespin. You haven't ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... without flinching, waiting for me to perform my great feat. I raised the crossbow amid the breathless silence of the crowded audience—consisting of seven boys and three girls, exclusive of Kitty Collins, who insisted on paying her way in with a clothespin. I raised the crossbow, I repeat. Twang! went the whipcord; but, alas! instead of hitting the apple, the arrow flew right into Pepper Whitcomb's mouth, which happened to be open at the time, and ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... positions he could study up, but standing on his head and working his legs the way a frog does was the best. The further we got away, the littler Jim got, and the grander the Sphinx got, till at last it was only a clothespin on a dome, as you might say. That's the way perspective brings out the correct proportions, Tom said; he said Julus Cesar's niggers didn't know how big he was, they ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... said Mrs. Bunny, and she sat down on the clothespin basket and laughed, but, of course, there weren't any clothespins, or any other kind of pins, in it, you see, for then she wouldn't ...
— Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog • David Magie Cory

... room and putting the baby on the floor emptied the clothespin bag in his lap to keep him occupied, and flew up the stairs to Mrs. ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger



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