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19-01-2019, 08:14 PM
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Ok Longy, let’s ask the audience!

Is there anyone from Lancashire that can help us out on the use of ‘Clothes Maiden’ instead of ‘Clothes Horse’?
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Yes, it's a maiden, my mother had a wooden maiden, mine is plastic-coated but it's still a maiden.
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19-01-2019, 09:37 PM
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When I was a Girl they were called winterdykes..or just dykes for short.
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19-01-2019, 11:07 PM
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When I was a Girl they were called winterdykes..or just dykes for short.
Together with Gay, Stoned and Snowflake, Dyke has a completely different meaning these days May.....
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19-01-2019, 11:12 PM
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Winter still means the same.
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20-01-2019, 07:37 AM
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It's rare I dry stuff on radiators...I hate mess and clutter so having stuff draped all over the place would just irritate me. I remember clothes horses as a kid though....they were good for making tents....
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20-01-2019, 08:17 AM
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Seems there are many names for them, thank you Wiki:-

A clothes horse, sometimes called a clothes rack, drying horse, clothes maiden, garment donkey, drying rack, drying stand, Frostick, airer, or (Scots) winterdyke, is a frame upon which clothes are hung after washing, indoors or outdoors, to dry by evaporation. The frame is usually made of wood, metal or plastic. It is a cheap low-tech piece of laundry equipment, as opposed to a clothes dryer, which necessitates electricity.
I would love to have one of the pulley ones - but my ceilings are too low.
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20-01-2019, 08:21 AM
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Hi

I do air things on the bedroom radiator if I know I will be up early on a frosty morning.
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20-01-2019, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Leia ->
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Yes, it's a maiden, my mother had a wooden maiden, mine is plastic-coated but it's still a maiden.
Leila, Thanks for that! I knew some people referred to a clothes horse as a ‘maiden’.
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20-01-2019, 06:08 PM
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I've never heard it called that before, it's always just been The Clothes Horse. How did it come to be renamed a Maiden.
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20-01-2019, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Roxy ->
I've never heard it called that before, it's always just been The Clothes Horse. How did it come to be renamed a Maiden.
Roxy, l don’t know but l suppose it is regional? Maybe, we need to go back to the audience to ask why?

I’m still in shock at a clothes horse being called, a winterdyke!
 
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