(n.) One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
(n.) A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Review of the records at Milwaukee Children's Hospital between the years 1973 and 1983 revealed that of the 99 wringer injuries seen, 80 of 99 patients were radiographed and only five fractures were diagnosed.
(2) A clinical survey of 92 upper extremity wringer injuries over the past four years at the Bexar County Hospital are presented.
(3) Of these fractures only two were attributable to the wringer device and these two required therapy.
(4) Few cities in the developed world can have been put as comprehensively through the wringer as Yubari, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido and known in its heyday as the capital of coal.
(5) I thought I went through the wringer last week against Derby.
(6) Ninety-two upper extremity compression injuries secondary to washing machine wringers were reviewed.
(7) While the number of wringer washing machine injuries is declining due to the increasing use of automatic washing machines, these injuries still occur.
(8) Paxman said Entwistle was "put through the wringer" during the David Kelly affair after the programme's science editor Susan Watts told him that the weapons inspector was a source of her reports on Iraq's military capabilities.
(9) "This is a little bit about Thai navy payback where Phuketwan has been a thorn in the side of the navy for many years in the handling of the Rohingya and the navy is determined to put them through the wringer," Robertson said.
(10) It opened in 1972, a few months before a break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at Washington’s Watergate hotel and office complex led to Woodward and Bernstein’s revelation of crime and cover-up at the highest level of government (“Katie Graham’s gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published,” US attorney general John Mitchell fumed).
(11) Wednesday January 16 2013 Who says Guardian readers are a bunch of sandal-wearing hand-wringers knitting their own organic hemp underwear and obsessing about the origins of their lentil homebrew?
(12) He also had a remarkable owner behind him in the Post’s proprietor, Katharine Graham – famously warned early on in the saga by the White House that she would “get her tit caught in a big fat wringer”.
(13) In this report we describe our experience with the gastroschisis wringer clamp (GWC).
(14) Jeremy Paxman has recalled how his former boss was "put through the wringer" after Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, revealed to him that the weapons inspector was a source of her reports on Iraq's military capabilities.
(15) This, after all, is the director who put Isabelle Huppert through the wringer in The Piano Teacher, foreshadowed the rise of Nazism in The White Ribbon and douses the lights altogether with Amour.
(16) Like many who came to power under the Blair-Brown aegis, she has learned to say nothing that hasn't already gone through the "will this win votes" wringer.
(17) The GWC is an autoclavable, 140-g, aluminum alloy device reminiscent of an old wringer washing machine.
(18) He points to the first appearance of the witch Tiffany Aching, a central character in his young adult titles – the precocious nine-year-old puts various fairy stories through the wringer of her enquiring mind.
(19) Down the years the director has been accused of pushing his actors – and particularly his female actors – too hard; of feeding them through the wringer and all but sniggering at their discomfort.
(20) If all you knew of Tracey Thorn was her music, you might think she had spent the last 30 years being squeezed through the emotional wringer.