clothes pole

clothes pole

n
1. Also called: clothes post a post to which a clothesline is attached
2. Scot and US another term for clothes prop
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A killer who chopped off his teenage girlfriend's head with a whirligig clothes pole has died in hospital.
The stooshie was sparked by a damaged clothes pole near the UK's most northerly lighthouse, Muckle Flugga Lighthouse on Unst.
The standard closet treatment--a single, eye-level clothes pole with a shelf above--only makes sense in an entry-hall closet where long coats, boots, and maybe an umbrella or two are stored.
At home they won't have a mobile phone or even use an answering service, they're restricted to BBC and ITV on the telly, and they wouldn't touch a home computer with a wooden clothes pole.
Closet hardware includes such products as: pole sockets for mounting wooden clothes poles; combination brackets that support both a closet shelf and clothes pole; brackets specifically designed to hold clothes poles up to 1" in diameter; spring tension rods; adjustable clothes bars with mounting hardware; and special hooks for hanging hats, light clothing, towels, etc.
A BIRD landed on a clothes pole - and what happened next led to a major rescue operation involving the RSPCA and firefighters.
Brent Jessop, 22, was in the back garden of his parents' County Durham home on leave, taking pot shots at a clothes pole.
It's definitely easier to clean up out there than in the house.) The mat is now hanging on the earlier mentioned trash-picked clothes line with the trash-picked clothes pins, and the trash-picked clothes pole supports it to dry naturally.
Ever since I first picked up a "dead" sparkler by the wrong end, and after watching in terror (on too many occasions), my dad trying to re-light the reluctant Catherine wheel he'd nailed to a clothes pole, it's been clear this was a potentially fatal non-event.
Rather than a traditional rod and reel, Helen uses a pole - a bit like an extendable clothes pole really, but made out of carbon fibre, costing thousands of pounds and with a line and hook on the end.
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