washboarded

washboarded

1. simple past tense and past participle of washboard

washboarded (comparative more washboarded, superlative most washboarded)

1. Suffering from washboarding.
   • 1928, Engineering Bulletin - Issues 25-40, page 54:

     In the case of trucks, a badly “washboarded” highway tends to limit the maximum possible load which the truck's springs can carry.

   • 2001, New Zealand Journal of Forestry - Volumes 46-47:

     To estimate this sap tension, a cylindrical item, having the same radius as that of the depressions on the wavy, washboarded surface, was pressed from the top into the earlywood layer of a specimen placed on the flat dynamometer, until the depth of depression produced equalled that for the washboarded surface.

   • 2007, Jean Gould O'Connell, Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy, →ISBN:

     So, into his car we climbed, driving about five and a half miles east of town on bumpy, dusty, hilly, washboarded gravel roads, churning up a trail of dust as we went.

   • 2010, Geoffrey Landgraf, All Around Bend, →ISBN, page 99:

     Chances are good that it is extremely washboarded by now.