Clothes wringer


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Clothes wringer

A pair of closely spaced rubberfaced rollers geared together, turned by hand, and used to squeeze the water from clothes after they were washed. A wringer replaced twisting the wet clothes by hand, and in turn was replaced by spin-drying.
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When I was young I'd watch my gran heaving the handle on theclothes wringer till the sweat ran down her face.
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Winnie still uses aclothes wringer - more than half a century old - to squeeze dry her hand-washed clothes.
Pensioner Winnie refuses to wring changes at home

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