Crossword clues for wringer
wringer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wringer \Wring"er\, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"device for squeezing water from clothes," 1799, agent noun from wring (v.). (Earlier it meant "extortioner," c.1300.) Figurative phrase to put (someone) through the wringer first recorded 1942, American English.
Wiktionary
n. A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung); a mangle.
WordNet
n. a clothes dryer consisting of two roles between which the wet clothes are squeezed
Wikipedia
The Wringer (also 'wringer box illusion' or ' mangle box') is a stage magic trick. The magician places his assistant (or a shill from the audience) into a large box with a set of rollers in the front. The magician turns a crank, and the assistant emerges through the rollers, now flat as a pancake. The magician then opens the front of the box, revealing it to be empty. The magician may later restore the assistant, though this is not required. This trick can also be performed with small animals, such as ducks or rabbits.
Magician C.J. Johnson often performs this trick.
Wringer is a young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli, first published in 1996. It received a Newbery Honor citation in 1997.
A wringer is a mechanical laundry aid (also known as a mangle).
Wringer may also refer to:
- Wringer (magic trick), a stage magic trick
- Wringer (novel), a Newbery Honor–winning 1998 novel
- Wringer (mop bucket), a device on a bucket for a mop that is used to squeeze water out of a mop
- "Stuck in the Wringer", a SpongeBob SquarePants (season 7) episode
Usage examples of "wringer".
On Saturday mornings, she washes the clothes against the metal rungs of the scrub board and puts them through the wringer.
Science had stripped off the surplusage, run it through the wringer of two-valued logic, and placed the knowledge in a form in which anyone could use it.
Useful, but not required, would be some type of roller or wringer to squeeze excess dyebath from the cloth when it was done.
Once Delevan had been little more than a kid himself, and he would never fully understand that it wasn't Pop who had stuck his tit in the wringer but he himself.
Beyond the signpost forest the road led to a house of gray wood with a sagging front porch and in the front yard—and here I mean “sea of weeds” instead of yard as ordinary people might know it—a motley collection of rust-eaten clothes wringers, kitchen stoves, lamps, bed-frames, electric fans, iceboxes, and other smaller appliances was lying about in untidy piles.
Cassandra Lane really put Malison through the wringer over that phony abuse scandal.
The wringers they do because it's at least mechanical and has moving parts.
She felt as if she had been pulled through the wringer on an old-fashioned washing machine.
The finished wringers would be sent up to her for distribution and collection of the balance of the purchase price.
The very fabric of reality was being put through the wringer in there.
The very fabric of time and space is about to be put through the wringer.
Oh, I can't tell you how sorry I am that you're being put through the wringer of this awful legal system.
One shed was filled with wringer washing machines, and when Joe had the time he puttered over them until they were "running" again.
I got a job in the rolling shed, feeding raw stock into a machine that looked like the wringer on a giant's washing machine.
What's sauce for the goose definitely isn't sauce for an SSA whose dick is in a wringer.