Settle an argument please. I call this a Whirlygig but my brother says it is a clothes tree. Are either of us correct?

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1. No, it’s a rotary airer.

2. I’ve only ever heard them called rotary clothes dryer, or rotary washing line.

3. I’ve heard whirligig before, also some call it rotary washing line

4. I would probably just call it a washing line tbh, even though it’s not line shaped.

5. Scotland here call it whirlygig

6. It’s a rotary dryer.

7. Whirlygig! 

8. Whirlygig for sure.

9. It is called a Hills Hoist

10. The barefoot hole punch (when it’s been removed)

11. It is not a clothes tree ! Shoes have trees

12. Hills hoist (at least in Australia)

13. It’s a rotary clothes line.

14. Rotary line

15. Whirlygig for me but I was under the impression that was a Scottish term for it. Is it used down south?

16. It’s a rotary line.

17. Rotary washing line

18. It is just a washing line. I’ve never heard it called either of things you refer to.

19. It’s a whirly gig in my house …

20. We called it a whirlybird when I was a kid, I’m just now figuring out that that is wrong…

21. Washing line

22. Rotary washing line. You both wrong.

23. Rotary washing line.

    But I don’t have that many washing lines that I need to be specific, so just line works.

    Usually I’ll say: I’m hanging the washing out

    My husband will know what that means since I’m not crazy and won’t just Chuck it on the fence to dry

24. **Wäsche-Spinne / Laundry-Spider**

25. Swingball?

26. Botanically speaking I think your brother is wrong.

27. I’m usually calling ours a “stupid piece of shit” as the support locking mechanism works when it feels like it.