Definition of "clothespin"

clothespin

noun
plural clothespins
1. A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.
  Quotations
  At a hundred and thirty pounds, Altman is poised as a clothespin, fierce as a horned owl.
  2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker‎
verb
third-person singular simple present clothespins, present participle clothespinning, simple past and past participle clothespinned
1. (transitive) To affix with a clothespin.