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2. Clothes line - Wikipedia

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   A clothes line, also spelled clothesline, also known as a washing line, is a device for hanging clothes on for the purpose of drying or airing out the articles. It is made of any type of rope, cord, or twine that has been stretched between two points (e.g. two posts), outdoors or indoors, above ground level.

3. Overhead clothes airer - Wikipedia

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   Modern hanging clothes horse with pulley system. An overhead clothes airer, also known variously as a ceiling clothes airer, laundry airer, pulley airer, laundry rack, or laundry pulley, is a ceiling-mounted mechanism to dry clothes. It is also known as, in the North of England, a creel and in Scotland, a pulley. [1]

4. Clothes horse - Wikipedia

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   The term " clothes horse " is used to refer to a portable frame upon which wet laundry is hung to dry by evaporation. The frame is usually made of wood, [ 1] metal or plastic. It is a cheap low-tech piece of laundry equipment, as opposed to a clothes dryer, which requires electricity to operate, or a Hills Hoist, which requires ample space ...

5. Why You Should Only Ever Air-Dry Your Clothes - AOL

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   Start small: I dry 90% of my clothes on a small drying rack, but bedding is too difficult to line-dry (unless you have access to an outdoor clothesline). So rather than let perfect be the enemy of ...

6. Hills Hoist - Wikipedia

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   A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons, and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.

7. Block and tackle - Wikipedia

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   A block and tackle [1] [2] or only tackle [3] is a system of two or more pulleys with a rope or cable threaded between them, usually used to lift heavy loads. The pulleys are assembled to form blocks and then blocks are paired so that one is fixed and one moves with the load. The rope is threaded through the pulleys to provide mechanical ...