Washboard
A washboard — for scrubbing by hard hand-labour — often touches embarrassment, with energy and fortune drained by indulgence if a woman uses one, and disgrace through fast living if broken. The dream may ask where abrasive effort is grinding at you, and whether a careless course is rubbing away the means and vigour you should keep.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for washboard, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a washboard in your dreams, is indicative of embarrassment. If you see a woman using one, it predicts that you will let women rob you of energy and fortune.
A broken one, portends that you will come to grief and disgraceful deeds through fast living.