washboarded

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adjective

Suffering from washboarding.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of washboard
adjectivewashboarded (comparative more washboarded, superlative most washboarded)

comparative more washboarded · superlative most washboarded

  1. Suffering from washboarding.

    Chances are good that it is extremely washboarded by now.

    2010, Geoffrey Landgraf, All Around Bend, →ISBN, page 99
    3 more examples

    In the case of trucks, a badly “washboarded” highway tends to limit the maximum possible load which the truck's springs can carry.

    1928, Engineering Bulletin - Issues 25-40, page 54

    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.

    2001, New Zealand Journal of Forestry - Volumes 46-47

    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.

    2007, Jean Gould O'Connell, Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy, →ISBN
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