(n.) Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.
(n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.
(n.) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(2) Others face more niggling problems: in a recent post on the local Facebook group “Eliminate All Stray Dogs”, one resident claimed an unruly pack kept jumping on his car, destroying its windscreen wipers.
(3) Bag placement of appropriately styled lens models is strongly recommended, since sulcus-placed lenses have sometimes shown either iris bulging or decentration and windshield-wiper or propeller phenomena.
(4) These include pupillary capture, optic decentration, malpositioned loop, windshield wiper, sunrise, sunset and lost lens syndromes.
(5) Sunlight or light from other sources can be scattered and refracted by the smears left on windshields by wipers.
(6) Both Kaspersky Lab and Symantec have also linked Destover to Shamoon , a so-called “wiper” that knocked out 30,000 machines at oil giant Saudi Aramco in 2012, as the same software drivers were in use.
(7) Not just Broadchurch but The Fall and Top of the Lake, both on BBC2 (and both BPG nominees), Utopia and Southcliffe on Channel 4 and intriguing one-offs such as BBC2's The Wipers Times, co-written by Ian Hislop, another BPG winner.
(8) The "windshield-wiper" sign was defined as any radiolucency of 2 mm or greater.
(9) The common types of malpositions are: pupil capture; sunset syndrome; sunrise syndrome; horizontal decentration; and the windshield wiper syndrome.
(10) The single-size design of five of the six soft lenses can lead to a windshield-wiper decentration effect in lenses too small for larger eyes.
(11) The bomber used a model of car so ubiquitous in Kabul that street vendors sell windscreen wipers and other spare parts at junctions.
(12) I'm sitting in the cockpit of the new Batmobile staring at the switch for the windscreen wipers.
(13) The Olympic slap-slap-slapping of rubber slippers as hawkers chase seemingly interested drivers, the grifting confidence of the ones who sell fake windscreen wipers, dog leashes, jump cables that only work for one week after purchase, and that pink rubber hose thingy for transferring fuel from a jerry can to your car, during fuel scarcity – Chinese solutions to Nigerian problems.
(14) Whereas serious dislocations such as the sunset and windshield-wiper syndromes are less frequent since the introduction of highly flexible loops, posterior vaulting of the pseudophakos may cause problems, eventually provoking a posterior capsule rupture and a secondary sunset syndrome.
(15) Football can indeed claim for itself a part in the invention of the windscreen wiper, but it was a Newcastle fan rather than a player who came up with the idea.
(16) Ancient bottom wipers yield evidence of diseases carried along the Silk Road
(17) The report also cites increasingly sophisticated techniques, which include dissolving the drug in solvents to smuggle it across the border disguised as flavoured drinks or hidden in windshield wiper reservoirs.
(18) He has also presented a long line of well-regarded documentaries for BBC2 (including, most recently, Stiff Upper Lip – an Emotional History of Britain) and has co-written, with long-time collaborator Nick Newman, The Wipers Times, a BBC2 first world war drama starring Michael Palin.
(19) Is the screenwash topped up, are tyres in good condition, and are the wipers working effectively?
(20) Some bamboo sticks with scraps of grimy cloth wound around them have been identified as bottom wipers from a latrine pit in a 2,000-year-old Chinese relay station on the Silk Road.