[ noun ] a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed <noun.artifact>
Wringer \Wring"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
2. A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
The FDA had put the company through the wringer for six years in reviewing NutraSweet between 1975 and 1981.
And the administration intends to use international pressure to keep Iraq in an economic wringer until he is gone.
Gray got caught in an ethics wringer himself in February and had to resign as chairman of a multimillion dollar broadcasting company to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest.