Definition of washboard in English:

washboard

noun ˈwɒʃbɔːd

1A board made of ridged wood or a sheet of corrugated zinc, used when washing clothes as a surface against which to scrub them.
洗衣板，搓板
Example sentencesExamples
- As we descended, my behind bounced off each log we passed, as though I were a piece of laundry being scrubbed on a washboard.
- The washing dolly, the washing tub or bucks, the mangle, types of water, fuller's earth, soap, bleaching agents, blue, starch, bats, and washboards were keywords in the washing process.
- Her washboard is not some cast off piece of junk, more a statement of gleaming health and efficiency.
- As much as I admire her adaptability, it's hard to imagine her back in Arkansas cleaning the brood's clothing on a washboard out front lawn wise next to the stripped 47 Ford up on blocks.
- Perhaps students, instead of wasting money on machines, could just get a washboard and do their clothes in the kitchen sink.
- The process is simple - all you need is warm soapy water, a washboard, and a willingness to endure prunelike fingers.
- Their chores will be done with the implements of the day, which means they will be cooking their meals over an open fire and washing their clothes with a washboard.
- Washing happened in an enormous sink on the rooftop or in the compound, scrubbed in cold water and using a special detergent and a stiff brush on a corrugated washboard.
- Featuring an old black iron, pans, kettles and jars, a washboard and posser, used for pummelling clothes, the look is completed with a shop sign thought to be more than 100 years old.
- Over the centuries other innovations were introduced and by the early decades of the nineteenth century, most households in America used a washboard with grooves in it to wash their clothes.
- Instead, they re-enact the event onstage with an inferior ‘tribute’ while a bare-chested Black displays a stomach that is less washboard and more washing machine, a bulky turbulent affair.
- Long ago, laundry tasks simply required a tub, washboard, clothesline and backbreaking labor.
- A quarter-century of feminism and here's advice on how to use a washboard and scrub the kitchen floor on your hands and knees.
- Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.
- While she scrubbed the garments in a soapy tub with her washboard, Jack used clothespins to hang them upon long lines of string attached to trees.
- The women of the house rubbed each garment against the washboard over and over until the dirt came out, using soft homemade soap.
1. 1.1 A ridged or corrugated board used as a percussion instrument.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is a cacophonous six-piece party-punk ensemble of buzzing (not sludgy) guitars, nasty (not nasally) vocals, washboards, bugles, and cowbells.
  Pat Kelly on the washboard played with ten thimbles on his fingers and gave great rhythm to the band.
  Those sounds come in all forms, from the brittle banjo-playing of Ian McIntyre to the crackle from the attack of Revellie Nixon's washboard to accordion shots courtesy of Comeau and Barry Miller.
  Ronnie played washboard with his brother Ted's outfit, the Candy Bison skiffle group, in the intermission between two Tommy Steele films at a local cinema.
  Behind the Cliffside Inn, I heard a fiddle and a mandolin, keeping rhythm on an old washboard and stomping on the floor.
  The group tours with a mandolin, washboard, fiddle and a crew of ‘old time’ instruments, played standing in a circle.
  The Bayou Brothers sound features a variety of instruments including the double bass, harmonica, washboard, kazoo, jaw harp, guitar and mandolin.
  Cajuns improvised and improved the instruments first by bending rake tines, replacing rasps and notched gourds used in Afro-Caribbean music with washboards, and eventually producing their own masterful accordions.
  Performing as a Jug band, the instrumentation was primitive as they experimented with tub bass, washboard, and kazoo.
  Some people play washboards with their bare fingers on the corrugated surface.
  Most recognized for his red hat, overalls and washboard, Lindahl is said to have ‘put the fun back into country music’ after his performances on the USA Network show.
  He boasts ownership of ‘congas, washboards, harmonica and guitar’, the way other movie stars boast of owning vintage cars.
  He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group.
  Phil Rourke plays tea chest box bass while Matt Elliot handles the percussion, playing the washboard, shakers, snare drum, tin can and all-important cow bell.
  Frank became so accomplished that he played at professional gigs with pianist son David, and occasionally they were joined by their other son Mark, on washboard.
  In the courtyard was The Ugly Mug Jug Band, a fearsome foursome with a banjo, guitar, washboard, harmonica and jug.
  We sashayed past bars crowded with musicians playing guitars, the Uileann pipes, bodhrán drums, fiddles, banjos, washboards and yes, even the spoons.
  There is a CD, Holiday Rag, which has seventeen songs by Kees, who plays the piano accompanied by his friend, Bob Helm, on clarinet and washboard.
  We usually have two guitars, two banjos, a mandolin, a big ole homemade washtub bass, a washboard, a harmonica and many kazoos.
  She allowed them to practise for hours in her bathroom - where the acoustics were best - and often joined in, playing washboard.
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting a man's stomach that is lean and has well-defined muscles.
  （男子的）像搓板一样瘦的肚子
  guys with washboard stomachs
  washboard abdominal muscles
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you do want that firm, washboard look and what you've done to this point hasn't made it happen, change your approach.
  I like guys with washboard stomachs - I consider that sexy.
  They're the standard of male beauty - a washboard stomach, a chiseled face, a muscular body.
  And with some users experiencing rhythmic abdominal convulsions, they can get those washboard abs they've only seen on television
  That his stomach was more dolly tub than washboard, and his buttocks more pulpy than pert.
  It's not just some media pressure thing; it'd be nice to have washboard abs and feel good about strutting in a swimsuit, but that's not where my sights are set.
  I think she may have accepted that my stomach will probably remain rather more cheeseboard than washboard.
  After all, women these days make no secret of the fact that a guy with strong, muscular arms and washboard abs is a wanted commodity.
  For those planning to show off that washboard stomach and flaunt those abs this summer, ice tea is definitely good news, says Shardul Sinha, Director of Chisel Fitness Centre in Bangalore.
  Judging by the fact that I am surrounded by the finest collection of washboard stomachs I have ever seen, it is also fantastic for tightening up stubbornly flabby tummy muscles.
  It reveals a genuinely washboard stomach and arms no longer flabby.
  ‘I was even a stripteaser in a very famous disco in Madrid,’ he grins, sheepishly, before patting a stomach that would make a washboard check for cellulite.
  His sweat was dripping down his greatly toned torso and washboard abs.
  I casually thumbed through - guys with bright neon trunks, guys with washboard stomachs, guys with fetishes and guys with other guys adorned the glossy pages.
  Most guys want a lean and muscular body, complete with well-defined arms and washboard abs.
  Nor that he has one of those narrow, washboard waists that most of us can only dream about.
  Two days later and I had achieved a stomach that, if not washboard, was no longer in the washtub category.
  A competition like the Mr. Olympia was the one place where they knew they wouldn't be treated to raised eyebrows and haughty sniffs when waxing poetic over the virtues of peaked biceps and washboard abs.
  There is more to a man than his firm butt and washboard abs.
  GI-Joe had a nice bulge to match his biceps and washboard stomach.
3. 1.3North American mass noun A ridged, uneven road surface.
  a patch of washboard bounces the wheels around
  sixteen miles of washboard
  Example sentencesExamples
  Don't forget the pavement, you still have washboards, semi truck ruts, pot-holes and the cargo that falls out of the back of someone else's truck you're following.
  The road rose steeply past forests of cardónes and dry washes over stretches of washboard and sections paved with flat rocks.
  The ride was especially harsh over a short stretch of washboards.
  A linear compression rate through the first half of the suspension travel and then a slightly rising rate for the last half results in a long, smooth ride that sucks up everything from washboard to 50-foot road gaps.
  The desert that appears flat is in fact riddled with hidden wadis/depressions and unseen washboards that slow vehicular travel to a crawl.
  Though not ‘outboard’ like the new F - 150, this change reduces wheel hop on washboard.
  As expected, the treacherous first third of the course beats her up: the three supersteep descents, the large patches of axle-deep sand, and the mile-long section of washboard.
  It's more important for a race bike to actively absorb washboard and roots so riders can stay seated, powering the pedals to the finish line.
2A board fixed along the side of a boat to prevent water from spilling in over the edge.
（船边）挡水（浪）板

verbˈwɒʃbɔːd

[with object]usually as adjective washboardedNorth American

Cause ridges to develop in (a road or road surface)
〈主北美〉造成（道路，路面）凹凸不平
a road left washboarded by winter frost
由于冬天的霜冻而变得坑坑洼洼的道路。
Example sentencesExamples
- A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie.
- Then the big, belching bus turns onto a washboarded, sandy lane and slowly bounces through the tiny village of Ganeshpura.
- The fluttering blue flags marking cut areas in the scorched trees signal that my days bumping down these washboarded roads have been in vain.
- After about three miles of joint-rattling, washboard dirt roads we rounded a corner and got our first gander at the Buttermilks.
- Who in their right mind would look forward to driving over 60 miles of muddy washboarded, potholed, narrow gravel road?
- He scowls and flings the cap out into the washboarded road.

Definition of washboard in US English:

washboard

noun

1A board made of ridged wood or a sheet of corrugated zinc, used when washing clothes as a surface against which to scrub them.
洗衣板，搓板
Example sentencesExamples
- A quarter-century of feminism and here's advice on how to use a washboard and scrub the kitchen floor on your hands and knees.
- Long ago, laundry tasks simply required a tub, washboard, clothesline and backbreaking labor.
- As we descended, my behind bounced off each log we passed, as though I were a piece of laundry being scrubbed on a washboard.
- Her washboard is not some cast off piece of junk, more a statement of gleaming health and efficiency.
- Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.
- The process is simple - all you need is warm soapy water, a washboard, and a willingness to endure prunelike fingers.
- As much as I admire her adaptability, it's hard to imagine her back in Arkansas cleaning the brood's clothing on a washboard out front lawn wise next to the stripped 47 Ford up on blocks.
- Perhaps students, instead of wasting money on machines, could just get a washboard and do their clothes in the kitchen sink.
- Their chores will be done with the implements of the day, which means they will be cooking their meals over an open fire and washing their clothes with a washboard.
- While she scrubbed the garments in a soapy tub with her washboard, Jack used clothespins to hang them upon long lines of string attached to trees.
- Washing happened in an enormous sink on the rooftop or in the compound, scrubbed in cold water and using a special detergent and a stiff brush on a corrugated washboard.
- The women of the house rubbed each garment against the washboard over and over until the dirt came out, using soft homemade soap.
- Over the centuries other innovations were introduced and by the early decades of the nineteenth century, most households in America used a washboard with grooves in it to wash their clothes.
- Instead, they re-enact the event onstage with an inferior ‘tribute’ while a bare-chested Black displays a stomach that is less washboard and more washing machine, a bulky turbulent affair.
- Featuring an old black iron, pans, kettles and jars, a washboard and posser, used for pummelling clothes, the look is completed with a shop sign thought to be more than 100 years old.
- The washing dolly, the washing tub or bucks, the mangle, types of water, fuller's earth, soap, bleaching agents, blue, starch, bats, and washboards were keywords in the washing process.
1. 1.1 A washboard played as a percussion instrument by scraping.
  （洗衣板式）敲击板
  Example sentencesExamples
  He boasts ownership of ‘congas, washboards, harmonica and guitar’, the way other movie stars boast of owning vintage cars.
  Frank became so accomplished that he played at professional gigs with pianist son David, and occasionally they were joined by their other son Mark, on washboard.
  Behind the Cliffside Inn, I heard a fiddle and a mandolin, keeping rhythm on an old washboard and stomping on the floor.
  The Bayou Brothers sound features a variety of instruments including the double bass, harmonica, washboard, kazoo, jaw harp, guitar and mandolin.
  We usually have two guitars, two banjos, a mandolin, a big ole homemade washtub bass, a washboard, a harmonica and many kazoos.
  It is a cacophonous six-piece party-punk ensemble of buzzing (not sludgy) guitars, nasty (not nasally) vocals, washboards, bugles, and cowbells.
  Ronnie played washboard with his brother Ted's outfit, the Candy Bison skiffle group, in the intermission between two Tommy Steele films at a local cinema.
  Performing as a Jug band, the instrumentation was primitive as they experimented with tub bass, washboard, and kazoo.
  We sashayed past bars crowded with musicians playing guitars, the Uileann pipes, bodhrán drums, fiddles, banjos, washboards and yes, even the spoons.
  He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group.
  She allowed them to practise for hours in her bathroom - where the acoustics were best - and often joined in, playing washboard.
  Some people play washboards with their bare fingers on the corrugated surface.
  The group tours with a mandolin, washboard, fiddle and a crew of ‘old time’ instruments, played standing in a circle.
  Pat Kelly on the washboard played with ten thimbles on his fingers and gave great rhythm to the band.
  There is a CD, Holiday Rag, which has seventeen songs by Kees, who plays the piano accompanied by his friend, Bob Helm, on clarinet and washboard.
  Phil Rourke plays tea chest box bass while Matt Elliot handles the percussion, playing the washboard, shakers, snare drum, tin can and all-important cow bell.
  Most recognized for his red hat, overalls and washboard, Lindahl is said to have ‘put the fun back into country music’ after his performances on the USA Network show.
  In the courtyard was The Ugly Mug Jug Band, a fearsome foursome with a banjo, guitar, washboard, harmonica and jug.
  Those sounds come in all forms, from the brittle banjo-playing of Ian McIntyre to the crackle from the attack of Revellie Nixon's washboard to accordion shots courtesy of Comeau and Barry Miller.
  Cajuns improvised and improved the instruments first by bending rake tines, replacing rasps and notched gourds used in Afro-Caribbean music with washboards, and eventually producing their own masterful accordions.
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting a man's stomach that is lean and has well-defined muscles.
  （男子的）像搓板一样瘦的肚子
  Example sentencesExamples
  Two days later and I had achieved a stomach that, if not washboard, was no longer in the washtub category.
  And with some users experiencing rhythmic abdominal convulsions, they can get those washboard abs they've only seen on television
  GI-Joe had a nice bulge to match his biceps and washboard stomach.
  There is more to a man than his firm butt and washboard abs.
  It's not just some media pressure thing; it'd be nice to have washboard abs and feel good about strutting in a swimsuit, but that's not where my sights are set.
  For those planning to show off that washboard stomach and flaunt those abs this summer, ice tea is definitely good news, says Shardul Sinha, Director of Chisel Fitness Centre in Bangalore.
  That his stomach was more dolly tub than washboard, and his buttocks more pulpy than pert.
  Nor that he has one of those narrow, washboard waists that most of us can only dream about.
  I casually thumbed through - guys with bright neon trunks, guys with washboard stomachs, guys with fetishes and guys with other guys adorned the glossy pages.
  If you do want that firm, washboard look and what you've done to this point hasn't made it happen, change your approach.
  It reveals a genuinely washboard stomach and arms no longer flabby.
  A competition like the Mr. Olympia was the one place where they knew they wouldn't be treated to raised eyebrows and haughty sniffs when waxing poetic over the virtues of peaked biceps and washboard abs.
  Judging by the fact that I am surrounded by the finest collection of washboard stomachs I have ever seen, it is also fantastic for tightening up stubbornly flabby tummy muscles.
  His sweat was dripping down his greatly toned torso and washboard abs.
  They're the standard of male beauty - a washboard stomach, a chiseled face, a muscular body.
  ‘I was even a stripteaser in a very famous disco in Madrid,’ he grins, sheepishly, before patting a stomach that would make a washboard check for cellulite.
  After all, women these days make no secret of the fact that a guy with strong, muscular arms and washboard abs is a wanted commodity.
  Most guys want a lean and muscular body, complete with well-defined arms and washboard abs.
  I like guys with washboard stomachs - I consider that sexy.
  I think she may have accepted that my stomach will probably remain rather more cheeseboard than washboard.
3. 1.3North American The surface of a worn, uneven road.
  〈主北美〉（磨损得凹凸不平的）搓板状道路
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's more important for a race bike to actively absorb washboard and roots so riders can stay seated, powering the pedals to the finish line.
  The ride was especially harsh over a short stretch of washboards.
  Don't forget the pavement, you still have washboards, semi truck ruts, pot-holes and the cargo that falls out of the back of someone else's truck you're following.
  Though not ‘outboard’ like the new F - 150, this change reduces wheel hop on washboard.
  The desert that appears flat is in fact riddled with hidden wadis/depressions and unseen washboards that slow vehicular travel to a crawl.
  The road rose steeply past forests of cardónes and dry washes over stretches of washboard and sections paved with flat rocks.
  As expected, the treacherous first third of the course beats her up: the three supersteep descents, the large patches of axle-deep sand, and the mile-long section of washboard.
  A linear compression rate through the first half of the suspension travel and then a slightly rising rate for the last half results in a long, smooth ride that sucks up everything from washboard to 50-foot road gaps.
2A board fixed along the side of a boat to prevent water from spilling in over the edge.
（船边）挡水（浪）板

verb

[with object]usually as adjective washboardedNorth American

Cause ridges to develop in (a road or road surface)
〈主北美〉造成（道路，路面）凹凸不平
a road left washboarded by winter frost
由于冬天的霜冻而变得坑坑洼洼的道路。
Example sentencesExamples
- The fluttering blue flags marking cut areas in the scorched trees signal that my days bumping down these washboarded roads have been in vain.
- He scowls and flings the cap out into the washboarded road.
- After about three miles of joint-rattling, washboard dirt roads we rounded a corner and got our first gander at the Buttermilks.
- Who in their right mind would look forward to driving over 60 miles of muddy washboarded, potholed, narrow gravel road?
- A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie.
- Then the big, belching bus turns onto a washboarded, sandy lane and slowly bounces through the tiny village of Ganeshpura.

单词	washboard
释义	Definition of washboard in English: washboard noun ˈwɒʃbɔːd 1A board made of ridged wood or a sheet of corrugated zinc, used when washing clothes as a surface against which to scrub them. 洗衣板，搓板 Example sentencesExamples As we descended, my behind bounced off each log we passed, as though I were a piece of laundry being scrubbed on a washboard. The washing dolly, the washing tub or bucks, the mangle, types of water, fuller's earth, soap, bleaching agents, blue, starch, bats, and washboards were keywords in the washing process. Her washboard is not some cast off piece of junk, more a statement of gleaming health and efficiency. As much as I admire her adaptability, it's hard to imagine her back in Arkansas cleaning the brood's clothing on a washboard out front lawn wise next to the stripped 47 Ford up on blocks. Perhaps students, instead of wasting money on machines, could just get a washboard and do their clothes in the kitchen sink. The process is simple - all you need is warm soapy water, a washboard, and a willingness to endure prunelike fingers. Their chores will be done with the implements of the day, which means they will be cooking their meals over an open fire and washing their clothes with a washboard. Washing happened in an enormous sink on the rooftop or in the compound, scrubbed in cold water and using a special detergent and a stiff brush on a corrugated washboard. Featuring an old black iron, pans, kettles and jars, a washboard and posser, used for pummelling clothes, the look is completed with a shop sign thought to be more than 100 years old. Over the centuries other innovations were introduced and by the early decades of the nineteenth century, most households in America used a washboard with grooves in it to wash their clothes. Instead, they re-enact the event onstage with an inferior ‘tribute’ while a bare-chested Black displays a stomach that is less washboard and more washing machine, a bulky turbulent affair. Long ago, laundry tasks simply required a tub, washboard, clothesline and backbreaking labor. A quarter-century of feminism and here's advice on how to use a washboard and scrub the kitchen floor on your hands and knees. Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment. While she scrubbed the garments in a soapy tub with her washboard, Jack used clothespins to hang them upon long lines of string attached to trees. The women of the house rubbed each garment against the washboard over and over until the dirt came out, using soft homemade soap. 1.1 A ridged or corrugated board used as a percussion instrument. Example sentencesExamples It is a cacophonous six-piece party-punk ensemble of buzzing (not sludgy) guitars, nasty (not nasally) vocals, washboards, bugles, and cowbells. Pat Kelly on the washboard played with ten thimbles on his fingers and gave great rhythm to the band. Those sounds come in all forms, from the brittle banjo-playing of Ian McIntyre to the crackle from the attack of Revellie Nixon's washboard to accordion shots courtesy of Comeau and Barry Miller. Ronnie played washboard with his brother Ted's outfit, the Candy Bison skiffle group, in the intermission between two Tommy Steele films at a local cinema. Behind the Cliffside Inn, I heard a fiddle and a mandolin, keeping rhythm on an old washboard and stomping on the floor. The group tours with a mandolin, washboard, fiddle and a crew of ‘old time’ instruments, played standing in a circle. The Bayou Brothers sound features a variety of instruments including the double bass, harmonica, washboard, kazoo, jaw harp, guitar and mandolin. Cajuns improvised and improved the instruments first by bending rake tines, replacing rasps and notched gourds used in Afro-Caribbean music with washboards, and eventually producing their own masterful accordions. Performing as a Jug band, the instrumentation was primitive as they experimented with tub bass, washboard, and kazoo. Some people play washboards with their bare fingers on the corrugated surface. Most recognized for his red hat, overalls and washboard, Lindahl is said to have ‘put the fun back into country music’ after his performances on the USA Network show. He boasts ownership of ‘congas, washboards, harmonica and guitar’, the way other movie stars boast of owning vintage cars. He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group. Phil Rourke plays tea chest box bass while Matt Elliot handles the percussion, playing the washboard, shakers, snare drum, tin can and all-important cow bell. Frank became so accomplished that he played at professional gigs with pianist son David, and occasionally they were joined by their other son Mark, on washboard. In the courtyard was The Ugly Mug Jug Band, a fearsome foursome with a banjo, guitar, washboard, harmonica and jug. We sashayed past bars crowded with musicians playing guitars, the Uileann pipes, bodhrán drums, fiddles, banjos, washboards and yes, even the spoons. There is a CD, Holiday Rag, which has seventeen songs by Kees, who plays the piano accompanied by his friend, Bob Helm, on clarinet and washboard. We usually have two guitars, two banjos, a mandolin, a big ole homemade washtub bass, a washboard, a harmonica and many kazoos. She allowed them to practise for hours in her bathroom - where the acoustics were best - and often joined in, playing washboard. 1.2as modifier Denoting a man's stomach that is lean and has well-defined muscles. （男子的）像搓板一样瘦的肚子 guys with washboard stomachs washboard abdominal muscles Example sentencesExamples If you do want that firm, washboard look and what you've done to this point hasn't made it happen, change your approach. I like guys with washboard stomachs - I consider that sexy. They're the standard of male beauty - a washboard stomach, a chiseled face, a muscular body. And with some users experiencing rhythmic abdominal convulsions, they can get those washboard abs they've only seen on television That his stomach was more dolly tub than washboard, and his buttocks more pulpy than pert. It's not just some media pressure thing; it'd be nice to have washboard abs and feel good about strutting in a swimsuit, but that's not where my sights are set. I think she may have accepted that my stomach will probably remain rather more cheeseboard than washboard. After all, women these days make no secret of the fact that a guy with strong, muscular arms and washboard abs is a wanted commodity. For those planning to show off that washboard stomach and flaunt those abs this summer, ice tea is definitely good news, says Shardul Sinha, Director of Chisel Fitness Centre in Bangalore. Judging by the fact that I am surrounded by the finest collection of washboard stomachs I have ever seen, it is also fantastic for tightening up stubbornly flabby tummy muscles. It reveals a genuinely washboard stomach and arms no longer flabby. ‘I was even a stripteaser in a very famous disco in Madrid,’ he grins, sheepishly, before patting a stomach that would make a washboard check for cellulite. His sweat was dripping down his greatly toned torso and washboard abs. I casually thumbed through - guys with bright neon trunks, guys with washboard stomachs, guys with fetishes and guys with other guys adorned the glossy pages. Most guys want a lean and muscular body, complete with well-defined arms and washboard abs. Nor that he has one of those narrow, washboard waists that most of us can only dream about. Two days later and I had achieved a stomach that, if not washboard, was no longer in the washtub category. A competition like the Mr. Olympia was the one place where they knew they wouldn't be treated to raised eyebrows and haughty sniffs when waxing poetic over the virtues of peaked biceps and washboard abs. There is more to a man than his firm butt and washboard abs. GI-Joe had a nice bulge to match his biceps and washboard stomach. 1.3North American mass noun A ridged, uneven road surface. a patch of washboard bounces the wheels around sixteen miles of washboard Example sentencesExamples Don't forget the pavement, you still have washboards, semi truck ruts, pot-holes and the cargo that falls out of the back of someone else's truck you're following. The road rose steeply past forests of cardónes and dry washes over stretches of washboard and sections paved with flat rocks. The ride was especially harsh over a short stretch of washboards. A linear compression rate through the first half of the suspension travel and then a slightly rising rate for the last half results in a long, smooth ride that sucks up everything from washboard to 50-foot road gaps. The desert that appears flat is in fact riddled with hidden wadis/depressions and unseen washboards that slow vehicular travel to a crawl. Though not ‘outboard’ like the new F - 150, this change reduces wheel hop on washboard. As expected, the treacherous first third of the course beats her up: the three supersteep descents, the large patches of axle-deep sand, and the mile-long section of washboard. It's more important for a race bike to actively absorb washboard and roots so riders can stay seated, powering the pedals to the finish line. 2A board fixed along the side of a boat to prevent water from spilling in over the edge. （船边）挡水（浪）板 verbˈwɒʃbɔːd [with object]usually as adjective washboardedNorth American Cause ridges to develop in (a road or road surface) 〈主北美〉造成（道路，路面）凹凸不平 a road left washboarded by winter frost 由于冬天的霜冻而变得坑坑洼洼的道路。 Example sentencesExamples A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie. Then the big, belching bus turns onto a washboarded, sandy lane and slowly bounces through the tiny village of Ganeshpura. The fluttering blue flags marking cut areas in the scorched trees signal that my days bumping down these washboarded roads have been in vain. After about three miles of joint-rattling, washboard dirt roads we rounded a corner and got our first gander at the Buttermilks. Who in their right mind would look forward to driving over 60 miles of muddy washboarded, potholed, narrow gravel road? He scowls and flings the cap out into the washboarded road. Definition of washboard in US English: washboard noun 1A board made of ridged wood or a sheet of corrugated zinc, used when washing clothes as a surface against which to scrub them. 洗衣板，搓板 Example sentencesExamples A quarter-century of feminism and here's advice on how to use a washboard and scrub the kitchen floor on your hands and knees. Long ago, laundry tasks simply required a tub, washboard, clothesline and backbreaking labor. As we descended, my behind bounced off each log we passed, as though I were a piece of laundry being scrubbed on a washboard. Her washboard is not some cast off piece of junk, more a statement of gleaming health and efficiency. Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment. The process is simple - all you need is warm soapy water, a washboard, and a willingness to endure prunelike fingers. As much as I admire her adaptability, it's hard to imagine her back in Arkansas cleaning the brood's clothing on a washboard out front lawn wise next to the stripped 47 Ford up on blocks. Perhaps students, instead of wasting money on machines, could just get a washboard and do their clothes in the kitchen sink. Their chores will be done with the implements of the day, which means they will be cooking their meals over an open fire and washing their clothes with a washboard. While she scrubbed the garments in a soapy tub with her washboard, Jack used clothespins to hang them upon long lines of string attached to trees. Washing happened in an enormous sink on the rooftop or in the compound, scrubbed in cold water and using a special detergent and a stiff brush on a corrugated washboard. The women of the house rubbed each garment against the washboard over and over until the dirt came out, using soft homemade soap. Over the centuries other innovations were introduced and by the early decades of the nineteenth century, most households in America used a washboard with grooves in it to wash their clothes. Instead, they re-enact the event onstage with an inferior ‘tribute’ while a bare-chested Black displays a stomach that is less washboard and more washing machine, a bulky turbulent affair. Featuring an old black iron, pans, kettles and jars, a washboard and posser, used for pummelling clothes, the look is completed with a shop sign thought to be more than 100 years old. The washing dolly, the washing tub or bucks, the mangle, types of water, fuller's earth, soap, bleaching agents, blue, starch, bats, and washboards were keywords in the washing process. 1.1 A washboard played as a percussion instrument by scraping. （洗衣板式）敲击板 Example sentencesExamples He boasts ownership of ‘congas, washboards, harmonica and guitar’, the way other movie stars boast of owning vintage cars. Frank became so accomplished that he played at professional gigs with pianist son David, and occasionally they were joined by their other son Mark, on washboard. Behind the Cliffside Inn, I heard a fiddle and a mandolin, keeping rhythm on an old washboard and stomping on the floor. The Bayou Brothers sound features a variety of instruments including the double bass, harmonica, washboard, kazoo, jaw harp, guitar and mandolin. We usually have two guitars, two banjos, a mandolin, a big ole homemade washtub bass, a washboard, a harmonica and many kazoos. It is a cacophonous six-piece party-punk ensemble of buzzing (not sludgy) guitars, nasty (not nasally) vocals, washboards, bugles, and cowbells. Ronnie played washboard with his brother Ted's outfit, the Candy Bison skiffle group, in the intermission between two Tommy Steele films at a local cinema. Performing as a Jug band, the instrumentation was primitive as they experimented with tub bass, washboard, and kazoo. We sashayed past bars crowded with musicians playing guitars, the Uileann pipes, bodhrán drums, fiddles, banjos, washboards and yes, even the spoons. He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group. She allowed them to practise for hours in her bathroom - where the acoustics were best - and often joined in, playing washboard. Some people play washboards with their bare fingers on the corrugated surface. The group tours with a mandolin, washboard, fiddle and a crew of ‘old time’ instruments, played standing in a circle. Pat Kelly on the washboard played with ten thimbles on his fingers and gave great rhythm to the band. There is a CD, Holiday Rag, which has seventeen songs by Kees, who plays the piano accompanied by his friend, Bob Helm, on clarinet and washboard. Phil Rourke plays tea chest box bass while Matt Elliot handles the percussion, playing the washboard, shakers, snare drum, tin can and all-important cow bell. Most recognized for his red hat, overalls and washboard, Lindahl is said to have ‘put the fun back into country music’ after his performances on the USA Network show. In the courtyard was The Ugly Mug Jug Band, a fearsome foursome with a banjo, guitar, washboard, harmonica and jug. Those sounds come in all forms, from the brittle banjo-playing of Ian McIntyre to the crackle from the attack of Revellie Nixon's washboard to accordion shots courtesy of Comeau and Barry Miller. Cajuns improvised and improved the instruments first by bending rake tines, replacing rasps and notched gourds used in Afro-Caribbean music with washboards, and eventually producing their own masterful accordions. 1.2as modifier Denoting a man's stomach that is lean and has well-defined muscles. （男子的）像搓板一样瘦的肚子 Example sentencesExamples Two days later and I had achieved a stomach that, if not washboard, was no longer in the washtub category. And with some users experiencing rhythmic abdominal convulsions, they can get those washboard abs they've only seen on television GI-Joe had a nice bulge to match his biceps and washboard stomach. There is more to a man than his firm butt and washboard abs. It's not just some media pressure thing; it'd be nice to have washboard abs and feel good about strutting in a swimsuit, but that's not where my sights are set. For those planning to show off that washboard stomach and flaunt those abs this summer, ice tea is definitely good news, says Shardul Sinha, Director of Chisel Fitness Centre in Bangalore. That his stomach was more dolly tub than washboard, and his buttocks more pulpy than pert. Nor that he has one of those narrow, washboard waists that most of us can only dream about. I casually thumbed through - guys with bright neon trunks, guys with washboard stomachs, guys with fetishes and guys with other guys adorned the glossy pages. If you do want that firm, washboard look and what you've done to this point hasn't made it happen, change your approach. It reveals a genuinely washboard stomach and arms no longer flabby. A competition like the Mr. Olympia was the one place where they knew they wouldn't be treated to raised eyebrows and haughty sniffs when waxing poetic over the virtues of peaked biceps and washboard abs. Judging by the fact that I am surrounded by the finest collection of washboard stomachs I have ever seen, it is also fantastic for tightening up stubbornly flabby tummy muscles. His sweat was dripping down his greatly toned torso and washboard abs. They're the standard of male beauty - a washboard stomach, a chiseled face, a muscular body. ‘I was even a stripteaser in a very famous disco in Madrid,’ he grins, sheepishly, before patting a stomach that would make a washboard check for cellulite. After all, women these days make no secret of the fact that a guy with strong, muscular arms and washboard abs is a wanted commodity. Most guys want a lean and muscular body, complete with well-defined arms and washboard abs. I like guys with washboard stomachs - I consider that sexy. I think she may have accepted that my stomach will probably remain rather more cheeseboard than washboard. 1.3North American The surface of a worn, uneven road. 〈主北美〉（磨损得凹凸不平的）搓板状道路 Example sentencesExamples It's more important for a race bike to actively absorb washboard and roots so riders can stay seated, powering the pedals to the finish line. The ride was especially harsh over a short stretch of washboards. Don't forget the pavement, you still have washboards, semi truck ruts, pot-holes and the cargo that falls out of the back of someone else's truck you're following. Though not ‘outboard’ like the new F - 150, this change reduces wheel hop on washboard. The desert that appears flat is in fact riddled with hidden wadis/depressions and unseen washboards that slow vehicular travel to a crawl. The road rose steeply past forests of cardónes and dry washes over stretches of washboard and sections paved with flat rocks. As expected, the treacherous first third of the course beats her up: the three supersteep descents, the large patches of axle-deep sand, and the mile-long section of washboard. A linear compression rate through the first half of the suspension travel and then a slightly rising rate for the last half results in a long, smooth ride that sucks up everything from washboard to 50-foot road gaps. 2A board fixed along the side of a boat to prevent water from spilling in over the edge. （船边）挡水（浪）板 verb [with object]usually as adjective washboardedNorth American Cause ridges to develop in (a road or road surface) 〈主北美〉造成（道路，路面）凹凸不平 a road left washboarded by winter frost 由于冬天的霜冻而变得坑坑洼洼的道路。 Example sentencesExamples The fluttering blue flags marking cut areas in the scorched trees signal that my days bumping down these washboarded roads have been in vain. He scowls and flings the cap out into the washboarded road. After about three miles of joint-rattling, washboard dirt roads we rounded a corner and got our first gander at the Buttermilks. Who in their right mind would look forward to driving over 60 miles of muddy washboarded, potholed, narrow gravel road? A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie. Then the big, belching bus turns onto a washboarded, sandy lane and slowly bounces through the tiny village of Ganeshpura.
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