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Wringer   /rˈɪŋər/   Listen
noun
Wringer  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
2.
A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.





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"Wringer" Quotes from Famous Books



... makes you appear superior to such trifles, like a giant gazing over molehills at a mountain. It's your size, I reckon, but you're the kind of chap who can put on a turned-down collar with your evening clothes, or a tie that's been twisted through a wringer, and not look ridiculous. It's the rest of us that seem fops because ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... your clothes, with hay sticking all over them, tells me that, as a detective would say. Also, your garments are as wrinkled as though you'd been put through a wringer. ...
— Frank Roscoe's Secret • Allen Chapman


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