Meaning
The ridged board used for hand-washing clothes — you rub the soaped garment up and down its corrugated surface to scrub out the dirt, over a tub or 'wash pan'. Before washing machines, the wash board (and plenty of blue soap and elbow grease) did the family laundry, and 'washday' at the board, tub, and clothes-line was hard, sociable work.
Examples
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She scrub di clothes pon di wash board.
She scrubs the clothes on the wash board.
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Wash board an blue soap did do di laundry.
The wash board and blue soap did the laundry.
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Mi hand tired from di wash board.
My hands are tired from the wash board.
Origin
From 'wash' + 'board'; the ridged hand-laundry board. See [[wash-pan]], [[blue-soap]].
How it’s used
The ridged board for scrubbing laundry by hand. See [[wash-pan]], [[blue-soap]].