Definitions for "Wringer"
Keywords:  newbery, spinelli, jerry, novel, honor
Wringer is a Newbery Honor-winning 1997 novel by Jerry Spinelli.
The Wringer or 'wringer box illusion' is a stage magic trick. The magician places his assistant (or a shill from the audience) into a large box with a set of rollers in the front. The magician turns a crank, and the assistant emerges through the rollers, now flat as a pancake.
Keywords:  extortioner, hence, one
One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
Keywords:  dryer, squeezed, washed, clothes, wet
A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
a clothes dryer consisting of two roles between which the wet clothes are squeezed