different between clothesline vs snowdrop

English

Alternative forms

• clothes line (British)

Etymology

clothes +? line

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kl?thz'l?n, IPA^(key): /?kl??ðzla?n/
• (US) enPR: kl?thz'l?n, IPA^(key): /?klo?ðzla?n/

Noun

clothesline (plural clotheslines)

1. A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.

   Synonym: washing line

   Coordinate term: clotheshorse

2. A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
3. (Canada, US, informal) The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.

Translations

Verb

clothesline (third-person singular simple present clotheslines, present participle clotheslining, simple past and past participle clotheslined)

1. (Canada, US, informal, transitive) To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
   • 2014, Jonathan Wood, No Hero, Titan Books (?ISBN)

     One beast jams out its arm, as if to clothesline me, jagged claws poised to take my head off at the neck. I let my feet fall from under me, throwing my legs forward, praying for some momentum, ducking and sliding, a mad limbo to freedom.

Further reading

• clothes line on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “clothesline”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From snow +? drop.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sn??.d??p/
• (General American) enPR: sn??dräp, IPA^(key): /?sno?.d??p/
• Hyphenation: snow?drop

Noun

snowdrop (plural snowdrops)

1. Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
   • 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, in the Strand, OCLC 270894685; republished in The Poems of Garth, and Tickell (The British Poets. Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes; XXVII), Chiswick, Middlesex: From the press of C[harles] Whittingham, College House, 1822, OCLC 16074759, page 166:

     A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.

   • 1865, Ouida [pseudonym; Marie Louise de la Ramée], “White Ladies”, in Strathmore: A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, OCLC 4557613; republished as Strathmore: A Romance. [...] In Two Volumes (Collection of British Authors; 1169), volume I, Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871, OCLC 798495291, page 9:

     White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan.

Derived terms

• Crimean snowdrop (Galanthus plicatus)
• giant snowdrop (Galanthus elwesii)
• snowdrop anemone (Anemone sylvestris)
• snowdrop tree (Halesia spp.)
• snowdrop windflower (Anemone sylvestris)
• yellow snowdrop Erythronium]] spp.)

Translations

See also

• galanthophile

Verb

snowdrop (third-person singular simple present snowdrops, present participle snowdropping, simple past and past participle snowdropped)

1. (Australia, slang, transitive, intransitive) To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.

References

• snowdrop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Galanthus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Galanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies