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2. 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.

3. Clothes line - Wikipedia

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   A clothes line, also spelled clothesline, also known as a wash 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, wire, or twine that has been stretched between two points (e.g. two posts), outdoors or indoors, above ground level.

4. 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.

5. Airing - Wikipedia

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   Airing is the practice of hanging or laying out articles and exposing them to air, and sometimes heat and light. This practice is commonly used to dry many types of fabric. One of the most common methods of drying using airing is the clothesline.

6. Clothes horse - Wikipedia

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   There are many types of clothes horses: large, stationary outdoor ones; smaller, folding portable racks; and wall-mounted drying racks. A clothes horse is similar in usage and function to a clothes line, and used as an alternative to the powered clothes dryer. An electric alternative exists, usually known as a heated clothes airer.

7. Drying room - Wikipedia

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   Laundry hung on a clothes line in a drying room (dehumidifier in the background and duct for ventilation in the ceiling) Drying room with clothes pegs on the walls and clotheslines in the ceiling. A drying room is a room intended for drying objects. It can act as a replacement or complement for drying cabinets, tumble-dryers, and outdoor drying ...