WRINGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wringer mean? 

• WRINGER (noun)
  The noun WRINGER has 1 sense:

1. a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed

  Familiarity information: WRINGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRINGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wringer" is a kind of...):

clothes drier; clothes dryer (a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing)

Derivation:

wring (twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid)

 Context examples 

Then Martin began to alternate between the dryer and the wringer, between times "shaking out" socks and stockings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He danced him over the ironing tables, the stove, and the mangles, and out into the wash- room and over the wringer and washer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)