O my belly ſeeths like a Porridge-pot, ſome cold water I ſhall boyle ouer elſe; my whole body is in a ſweat, that you maywring my ſhirt; feele here—[…]
1684,Robert Boyle, “An Essay on the Porousness of Animal Bodies. Chapter III.”, inExperiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays, London:[…] Sam[uel] Smith[…],→OCLC,pages10–11:
[T]hat greater numbers of them [pores],[…] are perforations that paſs quite through the Leather, may, not improbably, be ſhewn by the uſual Practice of Chymiſts, to purify Quick-ſilver by typing it up ſtrictly in a piece of kids or ſheeps Leather, and thenwringing it hard to force it out;[…]
[W]e contrived to satisfy the cravings of thirst by suffering the shirts to become saturated, and thenwringing them so as to let the grateful fluid trickle into our mouths.
At the end of this very long walk stands a woman in white marble, in posture of a laundresswringing water out of a piece of linen, very naturally formed, into a vast lavor the work and invention ofM[ichel] Angelo Buonarotti.
[He]wrung the urine out of his perriwig, and lifting up a large ſtone, flung it with ſuch force againſt the ſtreet-door of that house from whence he had been bedewed, that the lock giving way, it flew wide open,[…]
1857,John Ruskin, “Lecture I”, inThe Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857, London:Smith, Elder and Co.,[…],→OCLC,page17:
[Y]ou have to dig the moor and dry the marsh, to bid the morass give forth instead of engulphing, and towring the honey and oil out of the rock.
[…] I thought that he was as pleased by the shock value of what he had to say as he was thrilled by the spectacle ofwringing his own blood from the sodden gauze pad into the sodden towel.
towring someone’s hand (that is,shake hands vigorously with someone)
towring the neck of a chicken
a.1530 (date written),John Skelton, “Magnyfycence, a Goodly Interlude and a Mery,[…]”, inAlexander Dyce, editor,The Poetical Works of John Skelton:[…], volume I, London:Thomas Rodd,[…], published1843,→OCLC,page288, lines1934–1935:
And some I vysyte with brennynge of fyre; / Of some Iwrynge of the necke lyke a wyre;[…]
[T]here iſſued out of the middeſt of the water a ſerpent, of fire, and hee as ſoone as hee perceiued it, leaped vpon her, and hanging by her ſquamie ſhoulders hewroong her throat ſo ſtraitly betweene both his armes, that the Serpent perceiuing her ſelfe to be well nigh ſtrangled, had no other way to ſaue her ſelfe, but by diuing down into the deeps,[…]
[1633],George Herbert, “The Agonie”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor,The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:[…] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green,[…],→OCLC,page29:
Who would know Sinne, let him repair / Unto mount Olivet; there ſhall he ſee / A man ſowrung with pains, that all his hair, / His skinne, his garments bloudie be.
1710 March 5 (Gregorian calendar),Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms;Richard Steele], “Wednesday, February 22, 1709–10”, inThe Tatler, number137; republished in [Richard Steele], editor,The Tatler,[…], London stereotype edition, volume II, London: I. Walker and Co.;[…],1822,→OCLC,page310:
Come hither, you dog you, and let mewring your neck round your shoulders.
The spelling has been modernized.
1760,Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter LXXVI. From the Same[From Lien Chi Altangi, to Fum Hoam, First President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin, in China].”, inThe Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher,[…], volume II, London:[…][F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow,[…]; J. Leake and W. Frederick,[…]; B. Collins,[…]; and A. M. Smart and Co.[…], published1762,→OCLC,page62:
Towards the middle of the laſt act,[…] there is no neceſſity for ſpeaking, they are only to groan at each other, they muſt vary the tones of exclamation and deſpair through the whole theatrical gamut,wring their figures into every ſhape of diſtreſs,[…]
Come you whoſe loues are dead, / And whiles I ſing / Weepe andwring / Euery hand and euery head,[…]
1749,[Tobias George Smollett],The Regicide: Or, James the First, of Scotland. A Tragedy.[…], London:[…][F]or the benefit of the author,→OCLC, Act IV, scene v,page56:
1549 February 10 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as1548), Nicolas Udall [i.e.,Nicholas Udall], “To the Moste Puissaunt Prince, and Our Moste Redoubted Soueraigne LordEdward the Sixthe,[…]”, inErasmus, translated by Nicolas Udall,The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London:[…]Edwarde Whitchurche,→OCLC,folio viii, verso:
[B]y the couetous prieſtes ofBaall through defaulte of good & godly Counſayllours, whome (doubte ye not but this wickedrable founde meanes towring out of fauour, & to remoue awaye from the Kynges preſence) he was ſocoumpaced, weyghed, perſuaded, woonne, bewitched, peruerted & ſo farre ſeduced: yͭ (as the ſcripture recordeth), he did eiuil in the ſyght of the Lorde euen after the abominacyons of the heathen.
[N]ow you haue my opinion, you muſt not thinke towring me from it, for I had rather be as all women are, obſtinate in mine owne conceipt, then apt to be wrought to others conſtructions.
And the Prieſt ſhall bring it [a dove] vnto the altar, andwring off his head, and burne it on the altar:[…]
1662 November 19 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1717,Robert South, “The Seventh and Last Discourse Concerning Temptation. [1 John iii. 3.]”, inTwelve Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions.[…], volume VI, London:[…] Jonah Bowyer,[…],→OCLC,page421:
Our Bodies are unhappily made theWeapons of Sin; and therefore if we would overcome that, we muſt by an auſtere Courſe of Duty firſtwring theſe Weapons out of its Hands.
I shall boast it mine—the balsam, bless each kindly wrench thatwrung / From life's tree its inmost virtue, tapped the root whence pleasure sprung, / Barked the bole, and broke the bough, and bruised the berry, left all grace / Ashes in death's stern alembic, loosed elixir in its place!
1576,George Whetstone, “The Garden of Unthriftinesse,[…]”, inThe Rocke of Regard,[…], London:[…][H. Middleton] for Robert Waley,→OCLC; republished inJ[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor,The Rocke of Regard,[…] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry;vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed,[1867?],→OCLC,page119:
Then would I laugh to ſee my lady pout, / And ſmyle when moſt ſhewroung her mouth awry;[…]
VVould'ſt haue me cry, run rauing vp & dovvn, / For my ſons loſſe? vvould'ſt haue me turn rank mad, / Orvvring my face vvith mimick action; / Stampe, curſe, vveepe, rage, & then my boſome ſtrike?
He got to bed with these parti-coloured thoughts; passed from one dream to another all night long, the white face of Teresa still haunting him,wrung with unspoken thoughts;[…]
[T]he muſicke likes me not, and I haue a ſhooevvrings me to'th heart; beſides I haue a vvomans reaſon, I vvill not daunce, becauſe I vvill not daunce:[…]
But for the extirpating of the Rootes and cauſes of the likeCommotions in time to come, the King began to find vvhere his Shooe didvvring him, and that it vvas his depreſſing of theHouſe ofYorke, that did ranckle and feſter the affections of his People.
a.1530 (date written),John Skelton, “Magnyfycence, a Goodly Interlude and a Mery,[…]”, inAlexander Dyce, editor,The Poetical Works of John Skelton:[…], volume I, London:Thomas Rodd,[…], published1843,→OCLC,page292, line2073:
All breathing Death, around their Chief [Achilles] they ſtand, / A grim, terrific, formidable Band [theMyrmidons]: / Grim as voracious VVolves that ſeek the Springs / VVhen ſcalding Thirſt their burning Bovvelsvvrings.
And art thou come,Horatio from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / Tovvring more teares fromIſabellas eyes: / VVhoſe lights are dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.
And if he had not too much cheriſh’d his natural conſtitution, and propenſity; and been too much griev’d, andwrung by an uneaſy and ſtreight Fortune; he would have been an excellent Man of buſineſs,[…]
Hard hands havewrung from me my goods, my money, my ships, and all that I possessed—Yet I can tell thee what thou lackest, and it may be, supply it too.
There are two chapter VIIs in this volume; this is the second one.
The malcontents flattered themselves,[…] that it would be found impossible to restore public credit, to obtain advances from capitalists, or towring taxes out of the distressed population,[…]
It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance inwringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
[T]he enormous profits thuswrung from convict labor are a constant incentive to the contractors to exact from their unhappy victims tasks altogether beyond their strength, and to punish them cruelly when their work does not come up to the excessive demands made.
Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain on the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver—out of his earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself on. He took his life from this earth; drop by drop by his sweat hewrung food from it and from the food silver.
O noble ſir! / Your ouer kindneſſe dothvvring teares from me,[…]
[1633],George Herbert, “Praise”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor,The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:[…] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green,[…],→OCLC,page151:
My buſie heart ſhall ſpin it all my dayes: / And vvhen it ſtops for vvant of ſtore, / Then vvill Ivvring it vvith a ſigh or grone, / That thou mayſt yet have more.
[T]hirty ſpies, / VVho threatning cruel death conſtrain'd the bride / Tovvring from me and tell to them my ſecret, / That ſolv'd the riddle vvhich I had propos'd.
Whilst monarchs laughed upon their thrones / To hear a famished nation's groans, / And hugged the wealthwrung from the woe / That makes its eyes and veins o'erflow,—[…]
Words like these, I observed, always troubled them; and I had no small satisfaction inwringing from the boys, occasionally, that fresh and bitter condemnation of slavery, that springs from nature, unseared and unperverted.
VVho can be bound by any ſolemne Vovv /[…] / Tovvring the VViddovv from her cuſtom’d right, / And have no other reaſon for this vvrong, / But that he vvas bound by a ſolemne Oath?
a.1628 (date written),John Hayward,The Life, and Raigne of KingEdward the Sixt, London:[…][Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge,[…], published1630,→OCLC,page144:
[T]he Merchant aduenturers haue beene often vvronged andvvringed to the quicke,[…]
1528,Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion[…]. Chapter III.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e.,William Rastell], editor,The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght,[…], London:[…]Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, andRicharde Tottell, published30 April 1557,→OCLC, book III,page210, column 1:
For men be ſo parciall alway to theim ſelfe, that our hart euer thinketh the iudgement wrong, thatwringeth vs to the worſe.
1844 January–December, Leigh Hunt, “Christmas and Italy; or, A Modest Essay, Showing the Extreme Fitness of This Book for the Season”, inA Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, London:Smith, Elder, and Co.,[…], published1848,→OCLC,page xvii:
As the wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those doctrines best and sweetest which flow froma gentle crush of the Scriptures, and are notwrung into controversies and common-places.
1572,John Whitgift, “Whether Idolatrous Sacrificers and Mass-mongers may afterward be Ministers of the Gospel. Chap. ii. The First Division.”, in John Ayre, editor,The Works of John Whitgift, D.D.,[…] The First Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates I–VI, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:[…]University Press [for theParker Society], published1851,→OCLC, tract III (Of the Election of Ministers),page318:
Lord, how dare these men thuswring the scriptures?
Drudges, that haue no extraordinarie giftes of bodie nor of minde, filche themselues into some noble-mans seruice, either by bribes or by flatterie, and, when they are there, they so labour it with cap and knee, and ply it with priuie whisperinges, that theywring themsleues into his good opinion ere he be aware.
VVevvring our ſelues into this vvretched vvorld, / To pule, and vveepe, exclaime, to curſe and raile, / To fret, and ban the fates, to ſtrike the earth / As I doe novv.
For a given set of blocks with lengths in multiples of thousandths the lengths may be so selected as to make it possible, by combining different blocks inwringing contact end to end, to form a series having any desired length, measured in inches and thousandths;[…]
An adjective use.
1997,Bulletin of the National Research Laboratory of Metrology, Tokyo: National Research Laboratory of Metrology,→ISSN,→OCLC, page278, column 2:
The number of opticalwringing procedures performed for each gauge block was five, and the number of measurements for eachwringing procedure was eleven.
The pack experiment method to evaluate phase correction is valuable in that the differences associated withwringing two different materials and/or surface finishes between the gauge blocks and the platen may be accounted for in the averaging over the pack gauge blocks.
2010, Jonghan Jin, Seung-Woo Kim, “Precision Dimensional Metrology Based on a Femtosecond Pulse Laser”, in Mikhail Grishin, editor,Advances in Solid State Lasers: Development and Applications, Rijeka, Croatia: InTech,→ISBN,page186:
The uncertainty ofwringing effect is 6.9 nm, which can be determined bywringing the same gauge block on the base plate repeatedly.
The Haunted Wood was full of the groans of mighty treeswrung in the tempest, and the air throbbed with the thunderous crash of billows on the distant shore.
1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, chapter 2, inBefore the Sun Goes Down, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday & Company,→OCLC, part I (Summer),page31:
Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it.[…] And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn neckswrang.
Bel[arius]. Hevvrings at ſome diſtreſſe. /Gui[derius]. VVould I could free't.
1556,John Heywood, “The Spider Takyng Comfort, Entreth in Quarell with the Fliewring”, inThe Spider and the Flie.[…], London:[…] Tho[mas] Powell,→OCLC; republished asA[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor,The Spider and the Flie.[…] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester:[…][Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society,1894,→OCLC,page40:
Oh lord how his feat feete and handes hewrang, / Beſeeching his great god, that day to guide him, / And from his mortall ennemie to deuide him:[…]
1630, Ios. Exon. [i.e.,Joseph Hall of Exeter], “Upon a Worme”, in R[obert] H[all], editor,Occasionall Meditations, London:[…][Benjamin Alsop and T. Fawcet?] forNath[aniel] Butter,→OCLC,page170:
[H]ovv is it [a worm] vexed vvith the ſcorching beames [of the sun], andvvrings vp and dovvne, in an helpleſſe perplexity; not finding vvhere to ſhrovvd it ſelfe; hovv obnoxious is it to the ſoules of the ayre, to the feet of men, and beaſts?
In hydra-wrestle, giant ‘Millocracy’ so called, a real giant, though as yet a blind one and but half-awake, wrestles andwrings in choking nightmare, ‘like to be strangled in the partridge-nets of Phantasm-Aristocracy,’ as we said, which fancies itself still to be a giant.
1556,John Heywood, “The Introduction to the Matter, Showing howe the Flie Chaunced to Fall into the Spiders Copweb”, inThe Spider and the Flie.[…], London:[…] Tho[mas] Powell,→OCLC; republished asA[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor,The Spider and the Flie.[…] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester:[…][Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society,1894,→OCLC,page27:
Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more hewrange, the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of hisieoberdee,[…]
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Yet do I vnderſtand your darkeſt language, / Your treads ath'toe, your ſecret iogges andvvringes: / Your entercourſe of glaunces: euery tittle / Of your cloſe Amorous rites I vnderſtand, / They ſpeake as loud to mee, as if you ſaid, / My deareſtDariotto, I am thine.
That is, secret squeezings of the hand.
1612–1626,Joseph Hall, “[Contemplations upon the Principal Passages in the Holy Story. Book IV.]Lazarus Raised.”, inJosiah Pratt, editor,The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D.[…], volume II (Contemplations), London:[…]C[harles] Whittingham,[…]; for Williams and Smith,[…], published1808,→OCLC, part II (Contemplations on the New Testament),pages443–444:
Martha was ever the more active. She, that was before so busily stirring in her house to entertainJesus, was now as nimble to go forth of her house to meet him. She, in whose face joy had wont to smile upon so Blessed a guest, now salutes him with the sighs and tears and blubbers andwrings of a disconsolate manner.
Lo[ry].[…] I have been in a lamentable fright, Sir, ever ſince your Conſcience had the Impudence to intrude into your Company. /Y[oung]Faſ[hion]. Be at peace; it vvill come there no more: My Brother has given it avvring by the Noſe, and I have kick'd it dovvn Stairs.
[…] James, with onewring of the hand, retreated, while old nurse was nearly hugged to death, declaring all the time that he didn't ought to have come in such a way, terrifying everyone out of their senses!
1606, Charles Steuens [i.e.,Charles Estienne], John Liebault [i.e.,Jean Liébault], “Of the Carter, or Horsekeeper”, in Richard Surflet, transl.,Maison Rustique, or The Countrey Farme:[…], London:[…] Arnold Hatfield for Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill,→OCLC, book I,page195:
Hens dung ſvvallovved [by a horse] by hap, bringeth frets andvvrings in the bellie:[…]
1609,Ammianus Marcellinus, “[The XXIII. Booke.] Chapter II. Being Departed out of Antioch, He was Troubled and Haunted with Strange Signes and Dreames: But afterwards Comforted againe by Sundrie Presages, and the Arrivall of a Most Puissant Armadoe, He Proceedeth in His Intended Voyage.”, inPhilemon Holland, transl.,The Roman Historie,[…], London:[…] Adam Jslip,→OCLC,pages220–221:
[T]here vvas brought unto him an horſe named Babylonius, vvhich happening to be ſore vexed vvith a ſuddaine gripe orvvring in his belly, fell dovvne, and vvhiles hee vvas not able to endure the paine, vvallovveth along, and happeneth to beſprent his capariſon and ornaments richly garniſhed vvith gold and precious ſtones. At vvhich ſtrange ſight he tooke great joy, and cryed out, vvith the applauſe of thoſe next about him, That Babylon vvas fallen, and lay along on the ground diſpoyled of all her ornaments.
1637,Robert Monro, “The First Observation”, inMonro his Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (Called Mac-Keyes Regiment) Levied in August 1626.[…][3], London:[…] William Iones[…],→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2023-06-04,page 3:
When we have good dayes we slight them, when they are gone, we sinke under thewring of sorrow, for their losse; and want teacheth vs the worth of things more truely: and it is a true saying,Blessings appeare not, till they bee vanished.
If you boilCider eſpecial care muſt be had to put it into the furnace immediately from thevvring; othervviſe, if it be let ſtand inVats, or veſſels, tvvo or three days after the preſſure, the beſt and moſtſpiritous part vvill aſcend and fly avvay in thevapours vvhen fire is put under it;[…] AFriend of mine having made proviſion ofApples forCider, vvhereof ſo great a part vvere foundrotten vvhen the time of grinding them came, that they did as 'tvvere vvaſh the room vvith their juice, through vvhich they vvere carried to thevvring, hadCider from them not only paſſable, but exceeding good;[…]
1753, Hugh Stafford, “Sect[ion] VI. Of Proper Vessels for Receiving the Cyder for Its Fermentation; the Vigilance, Exact Care, and Attention Required in the First Fermentation of Cyder for Making It Sweet, and as Long as It Continues in a Fermenting State.”, inA Treatise on Cyder-making, Founded on Long Practice and Experience; with a Catalogue of Cyder-apples of Character, in Herefordshire and Devonshire.[…], London:[…]E[dward] Cave,[…],→OCLC,page48:
In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the work more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from theVVring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day:[…]
1826, “a Practical Man”[pseudonym], “Part IV. Of Cider, Perry, Mead, and Vinegar.”, inThe Vintner’s, Brewer’s, Spirit Merchant’s, and Licensed Victualler’s Guide;[…], London: W. Whetton,[…],→OCLC,page216:
Take any quantity of cider that is old, strong, harsh, or of an inferior quality, and add to it the same quantity of cider from thewring, or press; rouse it up well, and fix it in a warm place, or in the sun, which is certainly the best for its progress;[…]
Tess[…] gradually fell asleep again, the words of her informant coming to her along with the smell of cheeses in the adjoining cheese-loft, and the measured dripping of the whey from thewrings downstairs.
, Oxford:Oxford University Press, December 2022;“wring,v.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
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