Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that wrings, especially a device in which laundry is pressed between rollers to extract water.
- idiom (put (someone) through the wringer) To subject to a severe trial or ordeal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who wrings, as clothes.
- noun An apparatus for forcing water from anything wet; especially, a utensil for laundry purposes, in which, however, the clothes are not wrung or twisted, but are passed between two or more adjustable rollers which press strongly against each other.
- noun An extortioner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
- noun A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
device fordrying laundry consisting of tworollers between which thewet laundry issqueezed (orwrung ); amangle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mulroney through the wringer is the kind of treatment I expected Jean Chretien to get at the Gomery Inquiry, instead of the media adulation he received regarding economics and golf balls.
$16 Million To Find Out That Mulroney Didn’t Pay Taxes On $225,000 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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Mulroney through the wringer is the kind of treatment I expected Jean Chretien to get at the Gomery Inquiry, instead of the media adulation he received regarding economics and golf balls.
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Doc, I'm seeing the wringer mechanism from one of those old-style clothes washing machines which are popularly referred to as wringer-washers; and, it's in mid-wring of a garment with a French Fleur de Lys pattern.
Cake Wrecks the Game Show? Jen 2008
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Being a wringer is a right of passage for 10 year-old boys in Palmer LaRue's town.
Archive 2007-02-01 Franki 2007
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Being a wringer is a right of passage for 10 year-old boys in Palmer LaRue's town.
WRINGER Stands the Test of Time Mary Lee 2007
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"No, indeed," said poor Fiddlecumdoo, "I've been run through a clothes-wringer, which is much worse than being stepped on."
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People 1887
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She had a proper washing machine she used, but the wringer was a leftover from an earlier time before these fancy new automatic washing machines.
The Escapist : Latest News Shamus Young 2010
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One of the latest to be put through the wringer is the Amtek U560 UMPC, which is based on a pre-Atom A100 processor ...
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Yet the plain-living Amish who travel there by buggy in search of things no one else sells in person-a wood-burning cook stove or hand-crank mixer, perhaps, or a rebuilt Maytag wringer washer that runs on gasoline-probably have a different view of Lehman: that of a savior.
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metalnoir wrote: Doc, I'm seeing the wringer mechanism from one of those old-style clothes washing machines which are popularly referred to as wringer-washers; and, it's in mid-wring of a garment with a French Fleur de Lys pattern.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jen 2008
whichbe commented on the word wringer
Apparently people can be put through one of these, too.
October 10, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word wringer
Cf. nip roll; feel the nip of the wringer.
June 11, 2010