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noun

Wringer n.

One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.

A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wringer" Quotes from Famous Books

... and looked Sixty. Her Complexion was like Parchment and her Voice had been worn to a Cackle. She was losing her Teeth, too, but Henry could not afford to pay Dentist Bills because he needed all his Money to buy more Poland Chinas and build other Cribs. If she wanted a Summer Kitchen or a new Wringer or a Sewing Machine, or Anything Else that would lighten her Labors, Henry would Moan and Grumble and say she was trying to land him ...

— More Fables • George Ade

... Mary Jane slipped over to the wringer—that was the one thing above all others in the laundry that interested her and she did want to see how it worked. She turned the handle slowly three or four times, watching the cogs as she did so to see how they fit into each other so neatly and then so quickly ...

— Mary Jane: Her Book • Clara Ingram Judson

... would drop a kindly hint as to where and by what means you could acquire them). The Dirty Linen Store orderly who declined to accept your plea for forgiveness when you had been obtuse enough to see a fomentation-wringer in a teacloth, could devastate the harmony of a whole forenoon. A sweet reasonableness was undoubtedly the note to strike when such ...

— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir

Words linked to "Wringer" : wring, clothes drier, clothes dryer