wringer

noun

One that wrings, especially a device in which laundry is pressed between rollers to extract water.

idiom

(put (someone) through the wringer) To subject to a severe trial or ordeal.

noun

One who wrings, as clothes.

noun

An apparatus for forcing water from anything wet; especially, a utensil for laundry purposes, in which, however, the clothes are not wrung or twisted, but are passed between two or more adjustable rollers which press strongly against each other.

noun

An extortioner.

noun

One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.

noun

A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.

noun

A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung); a mangle.

noun

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