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

"Mulroney through the wringer is the kind of treatment I expected Jean Chretien to get at the Gomery Inquiry, instead of the media adulation he received regarding economics and golf balls."

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