Crossword-Solution: CLOTHESPIN 10 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Word Word Type Definition
Clothespin n. A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used
for fastening clothes on a line.

We have 9 clues for the answer “CLOTHESPIN”

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Fastener for drying laundry (Note the last 4 letters of this clue's answer + ...) 1 answer
Fastener that keeps laundry on the line 1 answer
It may hold up your shorts 1 answer
It's left hanging on the line 1 answer
Laundry room fastener 1 answer
Washday item that may be used indoors or outdoors 1 answer
What Brits call a "peg" 1 answer
Washday need 2 answers
Line item? 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECZMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CLOTHESPIN (5)

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.
Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Meg had an extra row of little curlpapers across her forehead, Jo had copiously anointed her afflicted face with cold cream, Beth had taken Joanna to bed with her to atone for the approaching separation, and Amy had capped the climax by putting a clothespin on her nose to uplift the offending feature.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1996
Well, I'll have a whack at that room myself and if a spook starts snorin when I'm there I'll--I'll put a clothespin on its nose, after I've thanked it for scarin' old Sol into repentance and decency.
Thankful's Inheritance Joseph C. Lincoln 2006
Don’t you know about him? How ignorant literary people can be! Why, he was the Amalgamated Clothespin.
Fennel and Rue William Dean Howells 2006
You haven’t heard of that?” She went on to tell him, with gay digressions, about the invention which enabled Westangle to buy up the other clothes-pins and merge them in his own--to become a commercial octopus, clutching the throats of other clothespin inventors in the tentacles of the Westangle pin.
Fennel and Rue William Dean Howells 2006

Quotes with CLOTHESPIN (2)

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
Claes Oldenburg
John Austin, author of 'Cubicle Warfare,' has outdone himself with 'Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction,' a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to constructing thirty-five pocket-sized war machines, including a Clothespin Shooter, a Hanger Slingshot, a Paper-Clip Trebuchet, and Shoelace Darts.
Camille Perri
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (2002–2024).