A rotary clothes drier in the form of an adjustable frame turning about a central pole and supporting lengths of clothes line.
Ruth pegged the washing on to the clothes hoist in the back garden
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- The animal bucked under the clothes hoist and lifted the hoist and the week's washing right off the pole.
- The Australian brand has long been famous for the clothes hoist.
- The first clothes hoist was actually patented by Melbourne resident Gilbert Toyne in 1911.
- He was restrained by a length of rope tied to the clothes hoist.
- Fortunate families inhabited suburban houses surrounded by fenced gardens with rotary clothes hoists and garages.
- My feet skidded and I slammed into the metal post of the clothes hoist.
- We would be the first family in southern Italy to erect an Australian clothes hoist on their property.
- The patent dates from 1946, the last of many rotary clothes hoists developed in Australia over the preceding three decades.
- He climbed the clothes hoist before he was two, and then it was on to every tree in the district.
- It was his all-metal clothes hoist with an enclosed wheel-and-pinion winding mechanism that formed the basis for other designs.