washboarded

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English

Verb

washboarded

  1. simple past and past participle of washboard

Adjective

washboarded (comparative more washboarded, superlative most washboarded)

  1. Suffering from washboarding.
    • 1928, Engineering Bulletin - Issues 25-40, page 54:
      In the case of trucks, a badly “washboarded” highway tends to limit the maximum possible load which the truck's springs can carry.
    • 2001, New Zealand Journal of Forestry - Volumes 46-47:
      To estimate this sap tension, a cylindrical item, having the same radius as that of the depressions on the wavy, washboarded surface, was pressed from the top into the earlywood layer of a specimen placed on the flat dynamometer, until the depth of depression produced equalled that for the washboarded surface.
    • 2007, Jean Gould O'Connell, Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy, →ISBN:
      So, into his car we climbed, driving about five and a half miles east of town on bumpy, dusty, hilly, washboarded gravel roads, churning up a trail of dust as we went.
    • 2010, Geoffrey Landgraf, All Around Bend, →ISBN, page 99:
      Chances are good that it is extremely washboarded by now.
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