Winter Dyke or winterdyke or winter-dyke [1][2] is a Scots word for a clothes horse used in drying clothing indoors. The word "dyke" means a wall or a fence made without mortar that was occasionally used for hanging laundry in the summer months.

The phrase winter dyke originally hails from the Ferguslie Park area of Scotland as a replacement for a back door drying area in the winter months.

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  1. ↑ "DYKE, DIKE, n. and v." Dictionary of the Scots Language. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Scot's Word of the Week - Archive page 1". Heriot-Watt Waves & Fields group.


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