WordNet
n. a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing [syn: clothes drier]
Wikipedia
A clothes dryer, tumble dryer, drying machine or dryer is a powered household appliance that is used to remove moisture from a load of clothing and other textiles, usually shortly after they are washed in a washing machine. Clothes may also be dried by natural evaporation and, if available, sunlight on an outdoor or indoor clothes line or clothes horse.
Many dryers consist of a rotating drum called a "tumbler" through which heated air is circulated to evaporate the moisture, while the tumbler is rotated to maintain air space between the articles. Using these machines may cause clothes to shrink or become less soft (due to loss of short soft fibers/ lint). A simpler non-rotating machine called a " drying cabinet" may be used for delicate fabrics and other items not suitable for a tumble dryer.
Usage examples of "clothes dryer".
I was only there for the anchovies and the warm clothes dryer under my backside.
Ripton shoots them as they come and drags their bodies around to the back of the field office, where, they soon begin to stack up beneath the clothes dryer’.
The idea of laundering anything makes me homesick for the sound of clothes with zippers going around and around in a clothes dryer.
We had a dishwasher and a clothes dryer, and we hung the clothes out to dry because it saved gas.
Hinzelmann went away with Shadow’s jeans, and from the room next door Shadow could hear a brief pause in the rattle of a clothes dryer before it resumed.
They went through one full revolution, and then another, perhaps a third, and Tommy felt as though he had been tossed into an industrial-size clothes dryer.
Hinzelmann went away with Shadow's jeans, and from the room next door Shadow could hear a brief pause in the rattle of a clothes dryer before it resumed.
The story may have evolved from an older, low-tech version that cropped up some 20 years ago, in which the pet crawls into a gas oven or a clothes dryer for a nap, only to get roasted next time the appliance is used.