airer BrE
clothes horse BrE
drying rack AmE

She carried the dress down the stairs and hung it on the airer.

She hung both their coats on Mrs Gibbons' airer while the landlady put ham and potatoes on the table.

The name derives from Old Gaelic airer Goídel (border region of the Gaels).

A Sheila Maid, sometimes Sheila's Maid, is the British name for a ceiling mounted clothes and laundry airer.

However, the word airer naturally carries the meaning of the word 'coast' when applied to maritime regions, so the placename can also be translated as "Coast of [the] Gaels".

In turn Woolf suggests that this gave rise to the terms Airer Gaedel and Innse Gall, respectively "the coast of the Gaels" and the "Islands of the foreigners".

The Annals of Ulster report that "Sitriuc, grandson of Ímar, landed with his fleet at Cenn Fuait on the border [airiur, airer] of Leinster."

The room was spacious, with two large windows and a cast-iron fireplace which was obviously used, for log baskets stood either side of it and an airer hung with bell-bottomed trousers and thick navy-blue sweaters swung above it.

The distinction between the Innse Gall (islands of the foreigners) and the Airer Goidel (coastland of the Gael) is further suggestive of a distinction between island and mainland at an early date.

A clotheshorse or clothes horse, sometimes called a clothes rack, drying horse, clothes maiden, drying rack, drying stand, airer, or (Scots) winterdyke, refers to a frame upon which clothes are hung after washing to enable them to dry.