Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

clothesline

UK /ˈkləʊðzlaɪn/ · US /ˈkloʊðzlaɪn/ noun, verb

Forms clotheslines clotheslining clotheslined clothes line

noun A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry. “Hang this towel out on the clothesline for me.”
noun A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
noun (Canada, US, informal) The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
verb (Canada, US, Australia, informal, transitive) To knock (a person) over by striking them across the neck or upper body with an outstretched arm, mimicking the motion of running into a low clothesline. “The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.”

Synonyms

From clothes + line.

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “clothesline”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details