Clothes line
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A clothes line is any type of string, rope, cord, or twine that has been stretched between two points, generally outside, above the level of the ground. Clothing that has recently been washed is hung along the line to dry, using clothespins.
In some places, however, zoning regulations may prohibit their use as clothes lines are sometimes associated with poverty or considered unaesthetic. This is particularly true in California. But in Scotland, many tenement buildings have a drying green — a communal area which, while it may be used as a recreational space, is predominantly a place with many clothes lines. In Australia, one may see examples of the Hills Hoist, a type of rotary clothes line invented in that country.
The use of the clothes line is dependent upon fair weather and as the powered clothes dryer has become more affordable, especially in North America, external drying has declined in popularity. However, due to various concerns, pro-environment groups welcome the use of the clothes line.
This device lent its name to a move in professional wrestling, in which one wrestler runs towards another and extends their arm out from the side of the body and parallel to the ground, knocking over the other as they run by.
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 Clothes pins (or pegs) on a clothes line |
 |A rotary or Hills Hoist type of clothes line |
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