Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any device for drying wet clothes.
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Examples
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April 21, 2008 at 2:42 pm you shoulda tole em it were a solar clothes-dryer!
dont worrie- - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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To eliminate background hums, the sounds of noisy fans and whines from spinning parts -- even levels as low as 30 to 35 decibels are considered objectionable by some -- engineers have used tools as varied as a clothes-dryer exhaust hose and an empty plastic snack cup.
- Boing Boing 2005
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Now I am past forty; and upon the kitchen clothes-dryer hangs the Dustless-Duster.
The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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Youth is always bringing the bride home -- to hang her on the kitchen clothes-dryer.
The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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One hangs, rather, in the kitchen on the clothes-dryer.
The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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Then, going out of doors, they inspected the revolving clothes-dryer, which David, with a seaman's instinct, had already rigged with four little sloops to sail about on the ends of the projecting arms, on Mondays, tacking after shirts and stockings.
Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" Heman White Chaplin 1885
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Likewise, bathroom-vent fan hoses, range-hood or clothes-dryer pipes can be insulated, and all vent pipes need to be vented directly to the exterior.
The Seattle Times 2010
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The danger involves clothes-dryer ventilation systems.
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The danger involves clothes-dryer ventilation systems.
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The danger involves clothes-dryer ventilation systems.
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