The clothsline and clothspin.

[tufguy]

You put up a clothsline between two ends to hang wet cloths on it. You put clothspins or prongs on your cloths so that they do not get blown over by the gust of wind. When the cloths have dried up you put off the clothspins take the cloths and hang the clothspins on clothsline.

Please check.

 

[Tarheel]

You put up a CLOTHESLINE between TWO ends to hang wet CLOTHES on it. You put CLOTHESPINS or prongs on your CLOTHES so that they do not get blown over by A gust of wind. When the CLOTHES have dried up you TAKE off the CLOTHESPINS, take the CLOTHES OFF THE LINE and hang the CLOTHESPINS on THE CLOTHESLINE.

Please check.

I wouldn't say the clothes have dried up. I would say the clothes are dry.

 

[Rover_KE]

Note: AE clothespins = BE clothes pegs

 

[Tarheel]

I am so old I can remember when we used to dry our clothes that way. ;-)

 

[Rover_KE]

You're younger than me, and we still do.:roll:

 

[tedmc]

You hang the clothes out on the clotheslines (note the spelling) to dry. You secure the clothes on the lines using pegs. When the clothes are dry, you remove them and leave the pegs on the lines.

 

[probus]

You hang the clothes out on the clotheslines (note the spelling) to dry. You secure the clothes on the lines using pegs. When the clothes are dry, you remove them and leave the pegs on the lines.

Agree with tedmc except that the lines are generally singular. I have never known a person who used more than one clothesline at a time.

 

[tufguy]

I wouldn't say the clothes have dried up. I would say the clothes are dry.

Can we say "we take off the clothespins or pegs from the clothes or clothesline?"

 

[tedmc]

Can we say "we take off the clothespins or pegs from the clothes or clothesline?"

Yes, "take off" is the same as "remove".

 

[Tdol]

In British English, you could unpeg the washing/clothes.

 

[Rover_KE]

I have never known a person who used more than one clothesline at a time.

You do now ... me.

(See How to Dry Your Washing by Peggy Tout.)

 

[Tarheel]

I remember removing the dry clothes from the clotheslines. (I'm pretty sure there were two.)

 

[Tdol]

I'd use the singular for this, though there are clearly many lines:

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/b....jpg_srz_648_648_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz

 

[tufguy]

In British English, you could unpeg the washing/clothes.

Can we say "we pegged the clothes after washing?"

 

[Tdol]

I pegged the clothes on the line. (There's no need to say after washing- who pegs clothes out before washing?)

 

[emsr2d2]

We dried clothes etc like this when I was a kid but we never left the pegs on the line after the drying had finished because the metal in the springs would go rusty if left out in the typical English weather!

 

[tedmc]

We dried clothes etc like this when I was a kid but we never left the pegs on the line after the drying had finished because the metal in the springs would go rusty if left out in the typical English weather!

Also, the plastic material which pegs are made of becomes brittle through prolonged exposure to the weather.

 

[emsr2d2]

When I was a child, the pegs were made of wood. They looked like this:



Before that, there were wooden ones without springs, which looked like this:



I would have thought leaving the wooden ones out in wet weather wouldn't be a good idea either.

 

[Tdol]

Aye, and before that we washed clothes in the river with two stones. Grand old days.

 

[emsr2d2]

Stones? You were lucky to have stones ...

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