washboarding
English
Verb
washboarding
- present participle of washboard
Noun
washboarding (usually uncountable, plural washboardings)
- The appearance of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road, caused by wear from traffic, erosion, or poor grading.
- 1988, Deborah J. Taylor, National Central Tire Inflation Program:
- According to the road crew, two forms of road surface damage are common to this haul route — washboarding and potholing.
- 1990, Harold W. Muncy, Asphalt Emulsions - Issue 1079, →ISBN, page 67:
- As the surface aged with traffic, the washboarding decreased in severity.
- 1997, Better Roads - Volume 67, page 33:
- Aggregate quality is important to prevent washboarding.
- 2005, T.F. Fwa, The Handbook of Highway Engineering, →ISBN, page 16-17:
- Corrugations (washboardings) are fairly regular evenly spaced transverse ridges and caused by traffic actions in conjunction with loose aggregate.
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- A streaky appearance on solid patches of color printed on corrugated materials, resulting from the uneven pressure exerted due to corrugations.
- 1987, Paper Technology and Industry - Volumes 28-29, page 267:
- When postprinting, washboarding influences the printability. Washboarding depends mainly on the distance between the flute tips ...
- 2005, Tappi Journal - Volume 4, page 7:
- The flute tips and the buckling or washboarding between the flutes tips can be seen easily.
- 2008, Appita Journal:
- Washboarding is a result of a waviness of the liner structure that follows the flutes of the comigated medium.
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- (bees) An unexplained behavior in which bees move across the surface of their hive with a rocking motion.
- 2010, Malcolm T. Sanford & Richard E. Bonney, Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees, →ISBN, page 64:
- The behavior shown here is washboarding.
- 2013, Barry Werth, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN, page 322:
- He then ran the images back in slow motion. They resembled the “washboarding” of bees, a herringboning, a shimmy.
- 2015, James E. Tew, The Beekeeper's Problem Solver, →ISBN, page 72:
- Certainly, interior surfaces and some exterior surfaces are coated with propolis, but washboarding behavior is not necessarily associated with propolis application.
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