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Definition of wringer in English: wringernoun ˈrɪŋəˈrɪŋər A device such as a mangle for wringing water from wet clothes, mops, or other objects. 绞干机，拧干机 Example sentencesExamples - As a child watches his mother put washing through the wringer in the 1940s, wet clothes ‘emerge from between the two cylinders of white rubber like giant wrinkled tongues’.
- If you stroll down the Kaivopuisto esplanade in Helsinki, there's some wooden benches along the harbour that look like picnic benches and industrial size wringers behind the benches.
- Even his mother's washing-machine alarms and enchants him, since he knows one day he'll put his fingers in the wringer, and (experience succeeding innocence) duly does.
- The making of wringers was the town's third-largest industry in the late 19th century and well into the 1950s.
- On one side of the main building there were four washing machines and two wringers, which were driven by a 20-horse-power engine placed in the adjoining building.
- I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.
- The wringer with its flexible rubber rollers is electrically driven and swings effortlessly into 8 different positions.
- A man standing over a hopper feeds in chunks of the batter, which are pressed through mechanical rollers that look like the clothes wringer on an old-fashioned washing machine.
- Next, I visited the nearby car wash, and used their wringer, (also known as a mangle), to manhandle a few ounces of water out of the jeans.
- They were primitive small cylinders, not hooked up to water pipes or drains, with no spin dryers or wringers.
- The housewife still had to use a wringer to extract the water at the end of each cycle.
Phrasesput someone through the wringer (or the mangle) informal Subject someone to a very stressful experience, especially a severe interrogation. 〈非正式〉使受尽磨难（尤指严厉的审讯） he has no papers so they put him through the wringer Example sentencesExamples - The story is told from Lucia's viewpoint and she is put through the wringer by her mother.
- She put him through the wringer financially after only a year and a half of marriage.
Synonyms interrogate, question, cross-question, quiz, catechize
Rhymesbringer, clinger, flinger, humdinger, pinger, ringer, singer, slinger, springer, stinger, stringer, swinger, winger, zinger Definition of wringer in US English: wringernounˈriNGərˈrɪŋər A device for wringing water from wet clothes, mops, or other objects. 绞干机，拧干机 Example sentencesExamples - If you stroll down the Kaivopuisto esplanade in Helsinki, there's some wooden benches along the harbour that look like picnic benches and industrial size wringers behind the benches.
- They were primitive small cylinders, not hooked up to water pipes or drains, with no spin dryers or wringers.
- As a child watches his mother put washing through the wringer in the 1940s, wet clothes ‘emerge from between the two cylinders of white rubber like giant wrinkled tongues’.
- The wringer with its flexible rubber rollers is electrically driven and swings effortlessly into 8 different positions.
- A man standing over a hopper feeds in chunks of the batter, which are pressed through mechanical rollers that look like the clothes wringer on an old-fashioned washing machine.
- The housewife still had to use a wringer to extract the water at the end of each cycle.
- Even his mother's washing-machine alarms and enchants him, since he knows one day he'll put his fingers in the wringer, and (experience succeeding innocence) duly does.
- I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.
- Next, I visited the nearby car wash, and used their wringer, (also known as a mangle), to manhandle a few ounces of water out of the jeans.
- The making of wringers was the town's third-largest industry in the late 19th century and well into the 1950s.
- On one side of the main building there were four washing machines and two wringers, which were driven by a 20-horse-power engine placed in the adjoining building.
Phrasesput someone through the wringer (or the mangle) informal Subject someone to a very stressful experience, especially a severe interrogation. 〈非正式〉使受尽磨难（尤指严厉的审讯） he has no papers so they put him through the wringer Example sentencesExamples - She put him through the wringer financially after only a year and a half of marriage.
- The story is told from Lucia's viewpoint and she is put through the wringer by her mother.
Synonyms interrogate, question, cross-question, quiz, catechize
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