Dictionary Entry
washboard
washboard is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
- 2noun
A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
- 3noun
A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
- 4noun
protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side
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- 5noun
device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on
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