The word "clothespin" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a device used to hang clothes on a line. For example: "My mother hung the freshly washed clothes on the line with the help of clothespins."
In order to beat in unison, each pair is usually hooked together by spines on the inner margin of the peduncle (retinacula) or the inner ramus ("clothespin spines").
Their industry and ingenuity produced numerous (usually unpatented) inventions, including, among other things, the screw propeller, babbitt metal, a rotary harrow, an automatic spring, a turbine waterwheel, a threshing machine, the circular saw, and the common clothespin.
Best are Morris's "guns": detritus reliefs that distantly assume pistol and rifle shapes with very free, infectious cadenzas of wood scraps, shoe parts, fabric, rope, nails, plastic, and, say, a brush, a clothespin, a whistle, a paint tube, or a toy nightstick.
She was reaching for the clothespin that held the old woman's bra when something made her look up.
"Telemetry" means machines — machines processing data, machines monitoring a patient's condition — and I am shocked to see my husband in a hospital bed, in an oxygen mask, I.V. fluids dripping into his arm, both his heartbeat and his breathing monitored through a device like a clothespin clipped to his forefinger, as a machine ingeniously translates his oxygen intake into numerals.
Her features, too, were narrow, with nostrils so slim that they appeared to have been pinched with a clothespin.
At its end head toward a big clothespin-like sculpture — the Monument to the People's Heroes — and make a quick visit to the Bund History Museum.
In Williams's illustration, Stuart's clothespin-and-cigarette-box bed is irresistibly charming but rumpled and untidy, surrounded by the playful flotsam of a rambunctious kid's bedroom.
In one chamber, officers dunked prisoners' heads in a vat of ice water; in another, they attached clothespin-like clips wired to a large battery to earlobes or extremities.
"You look like your own winding sheet/Held up by two clothespins" he tells one lover.
They fly off with people's mail, pull clothespins off lines, and make off with unattended objects such as car keys.
