Do you call it a clothes horse?

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So I need a new thing to put over the bath to dry my clothes. I have 2 questions:

1. Do you call it a clothes horse? Is this weird?
2. Can you recommend one? Last one was wilko and 26 years old at this point 😂

A clothes horse stands on its own feet (hooves) I think an over the bath one is an airer but I haven't seen one of those in years

I call my stand up one a clothes horse but I’m not sure on an over the bath one??

No I'd call that an over bath airer. A clothes horse would be something that's in the corner of the bedroom to pile all the worn-once-but-not-dirty clothes.

anything I hang clothes on to dry in the house is a clothes horse. Mine does not go on the bath. That’s an over the bath clothes horse.

I do call it a clothes horse, but a lot of people dont anymore!

I bought my vileda one from lidl - i swear by it and have three

I bought it for £20 but argos do similar ones that look even sturdier

I want a bath one - we have a tiny house 😂😂

I wonder why 'horse'

This is how I see things

Yes I do

'Hooves" helps me see your point but I love the horse, and although she is throughly ready for the knackers yard at this point, she lives on, over the bath perching on her little cloven hooves 😂

I would call that an airer.

we have a clothes horse but call it the maiden

My mother called it a maiden. I say airer.

Over the bath or not, we'd call it an airer here😅

Clothes maiden where I come from in Scotland. Pulley would be something fixed to a wall and strung across to opposite wall- over a bath or in the kitchen

Any folding standing thing to dry clothes on is a maiden.

I think I'd call a pulley one that goes over the bath a clothes airer.

I just stayed somewhere with one of those Edwardian wooden freestanding towel rails, with a curved top, and couldn't remember what to call it, but this thread has made me think it might be a clothes horse!

I call it the clothes/drying rack lol. I think I am in the minority here

I do, because my mum does.

any recommendations?

I call it the clothes horse. My mum called it the maiden (Lancashire).

I have just read it is sometimes a Winterdyke in Scotland and a Winterhedge in Lancashire which I have never heard of (I am am from Lancashire)

Same here, until I realised what an absolute ball ache it would be to move every time I had a shower. And the damp in the bathroom would mean nothing would dry.

@Toddlerteaplease we have a dehumidifier in the bathroom for this very reason and dry everything in there!

I’m Lancashire (but with a Scouse mum and close to the Liverpool border) and never heard winterhedge.

My sister in law is east Lancs so will have to ask her tomorrow what she calls it!

in my world a clothes horse is freestanding, mine are concertina-style, a maiden is a pulley airer with wooden slats, hung from the kitchen beams, and an over-the-bath airer goes… over the bath.

Argos sells one
I call my free standing ones clothes horses or airers