WRINGER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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)

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