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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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Etymology of 'Wringer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wringer" Quotes from Famous Books

... mortal hater of all good men, an adept in cozening, legerdemain, conycatching,[223:1] and all other shifts and sleights; a cracking boaster, proud, insolent, a secret back-biter, a contentious wrangler, a common jester and liar, a runagate wanderer, a cogging[223:2] sychophant and covetous exactor, a wringer of his patients. In a word, a man, or rather monster, made of ...

— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery • Robert Means Lawrence

... th' forgery was done. "Th' Cap first give it to his little boy to write. Thin he had his wife copy it in imitation iv Macchew Dhryfuss's handwritin'. Thin Macchew wrote it in imitation iv Estherhazy. Thin th' Cap had it put on a typewriter, an' r-run through a wringer. Thin he laid it transversely acrost a piece of wall paper; an', whereiver th' key wurrud sponge-cake appeared, he was thereby able f'r to make a sympathic lesion, acquirin' all th' characteristics iv th' race, an' a dam ...

— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne

... 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 ...

— Mary Jane: Her Book • Clara Ingram Judson

Words linked to "Wringer" : wring, clothes drier