Antonyms for wringer

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ring-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɪŋ ər

Definition of wringer

Origin : "device for squeezing water from clothes," 1799, agent noun from wring. Figurative phrase to put (something) through the wringer first recorded 1942, American English.

As in question : noun asking for answer

Example sentences :

Also, your garments are as wrinkled as though you'd been put through a wringer.
Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman

Get a strong barrel and a pounder—such as used by washerwomen; also a wringer.
Extract from : « Hints on Dairying » by T. D. Curtis

Never leave a wringer with the pressure on the rollers when not in use.
Extract from : « Mechanical Devices in the Home » by Edith Louise Allen

Thus, the clothes are wrung as dry as in a wringer of the roller type.
Extract from : « Mechanical Devices in the Home » by Edith Louise Allen

But close—say, that man's so close he puts every copper through the wringer.
Extract from : « Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm » by Alice B. Emerson

Judging from his looks, he might have been run through a wringer.
Extract from : « The Boy Scouts of Lakeville High » by Leslie W. Quirk

Have a cup of coffee; you sure look as though you've been through a wringer.
Extract from : « The Brain » by Alexander Blade

Then Dinah put Raggedy Ann's feet in the wringer and turned the crank.
Extract from : « Raggedy Ann Stories » by Johnny Gruelle

A smart man is this Sagasta, an' wan that can put a crimp in th' ca-ards that ye cudden't take out with a washerwoman's wringer.
Extract from : « Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War » by Finley Peter Dunne

Here stood a washing machine run by electric motor and a wringer run by the same motor (Fig. 143).
Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Electricity and Its Everyday Uses » by John F. Woodhull

Synonyms for wringer

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