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wringer

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wring·er  (rngr)
n.
One that wrings, especially a device in which laundry is pressed between rollers to extract water.
Idiom:
put (someone) through the wringer Slang
To subject to a severe trial or ordeal.
wringer
Noun
same as mangle2
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Noun1.wringer - a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed
clothes drier, clothes dryer - a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing
Translations
Spanish wringer [ˈrɪŋəʳ] n → escurridor m
French wringer [ˈrɪŋəʳ] n → essoreuse f
German wringer [ˈrɪŋəʳ] wring n → Mangel f
Italian wringer [ˈrɪŋəʳ] n → strizzatoio (manuale)
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Then Martin began to alternate between the dryer and the wringer, between times "shaking out" socks and stockings.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
You're a driver in disguise, a screwer by deputy, a wringer, and squeezer, and shaver by substitute.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
And I, the long time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he promised me--maggots of fancy, dreams of power, forgetfulness, anything and everything save whirling washers, revolving mangles, humming centrifugal wringers, and fancy starch and interminable processions of duck trousers moving in steam under my flying iron.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
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