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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vaskebræt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "wasbord"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"word": "lavtabulo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"word": "pyykkilauta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "planche à laver"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lavadoiro"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Waschbrett"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"word": "קרש כביסה"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "asse per lavare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "asse per il bucato"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"word": "洗濯板"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ppallaepan",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"word": "빨래판"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "peralna daska",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "перална даска"
},
{
"code": "mrw",
"lang": "Maranao",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"word": "batalan"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vaskebrett"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vaskebrett"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Riew"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tara"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"word": "tanquinho"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stirálʹnaja doská",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "стира́льная доска́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lavadero"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "tvättbräda"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"word": "çamaşır tahtası"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pralʹna doška",
"sense": "board to do laundry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пральна дошка"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a board on the gunwale of a boat to stop splashing - a splash board",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zetbord"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a board on the gunwale of a boat to stop splashing - a splash board",
"word": "roiskesuoja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a board on the gunwale of a boat to stop splashing - a splash board",
"word": "räve"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a board on the gunwale of a boat to stop splashing - a splash board",
"word": "pāiri"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a board on the gunwale of a boat to stop splashing - a splash board",
"word": "rauawa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a board on the gunwale of a boat to stop splashing - a splash board",
"word": "parengaru"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a board on the gunwale of a boat to stop splashing - a splash board",
"word": "paretai"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "percussion instrument",
"word": "pyykkilauta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "percussion instrument",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "planche à laver"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "percussion instrument",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Waschbrett"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stirálʹnaja doská",
"sense": "percussion instrument",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "стира́льная доска́"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "percussion instrument",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "tvättbräda"
}
],
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"washboard"
],
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}
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"ref": "1967, James Jones, Go to the Widow-Maker, page 515",
"text": "Doug came up with a half-guilty smile and washboarded his forehead at her.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Ocean Realm, page 17",
"text": "The rip that was generated by each change of tide had scoured the bottom white and washboarded the sand where it was still layered over the hardpan coral floor.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, David Poyer, The Passage: A Thriller",
"text": "The low bass brruummmp of 20-mm slugs going out washboarded the bulkheads.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Phoebe",
"text": "She drove as fast as she dared, braking for the frost heaves that washboarded the blacktop and on her dirt road, bouncing in and out of the clay ruts cut by the flow of runoff.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To produce a rippled texture on a surface."
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"categories": [
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{
"ref": "2008, The New Yorker, page 28",
"text": "It's almost as if the urge to washboard is intrinsically human.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To play a washboard."
]
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"ref": "2015, James E. Tew, The Beekeeper's Problem Solver, page 73",
"text": "Individual bees have been observed washboarding on the inside glass of an observation hive.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Robert Owen, The Australian Beekeeping Manual, page 19-51",
"text": "This behaviour is believed to be associated with general cleaning activities but under what circumstances workers washboard is not known.",
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}
],
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}
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