wringern.

Brit.

/ˈrɪŋə/, U.S.

/ˈrɪŋɡər/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s ringer.

Etymology: < wring v. + -er suffix¹. Compare Old High German ringari (Middle High German, German ringer) wrestler.

I. A person who wrings, extracts, or distorts.

1. An exactor, extortioner; an oppressor.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who

wringera1300

askera1325

extortionerc1375

exactor1382

scaffer?a1513

shaver1534

caterpillar1541

bloodsucker?1555

suck-purse1586

griper1587

extortor1590

exacter1596

extorter1605

barathrum1609

wreather1648

shark1713

vampire1741

bleeder1846

flayer1865

extortionist1885

Shylock1894

a1300 Sarmun xxi, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 3 Such a wringer goþ to helle for litil gode þat nis noȝt his.

1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xxxvi, in Wks. sig. Cciii^v How lost you your welth?.. Who was your welthes wringer?

1578 T. White Serm. Pawles Crosse 3 Nov. 1577 56 Masters detayning seruaunts wages; a roring sinne, whiche shall make the wringers houle for it.

a1618 J. Sylvester Sec. Sess. Parl. in Wks. (1880) II. 141 An Act against all greedy Wringers, Wrongers, Usurers, and Oppressors.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxii. 605 You're..a screwer by deputy, a wringer, and squeezer, and a shaver by substitute.

a. One who presses out juice or moisture. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > one who or that which extracts > by pressure

wringera1425

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. xvi. 10 Y haue take awei the vois of wryngeris out [L. calcantium].

b. One who wrings clothes or the like after washing; one whose occupation consists in wringing.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > wringing > one who wrings clothes

wringer1573

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. ii. 5 There dwels..his Laundry; his Washer, and his Ringer.

a1638 R. Reyce Suffolk in 17th Cent. (1902) 22 Wringers, spinners, weavers, burlers.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 8/2 Old Leischen... who was..his washer and wringer.

?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 59 Gun Cotton Manufacture: Beater. Dipper. Wringer.

in extended use.1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 102 Her waste so laste; her fingers sutch wringers.

†3.

a. One who twists or distorts. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion > one who or that which

wringer1552

distorter1847

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wringer or wryster of a thinge out of ordre, elico.

†b. = wrester n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > one who perverts

adulterer?c1430

writher1498

perverter?a1500

wrester1533

corruptera1538

wringerc1560

racker1565

wreather1566

hackera1603

wracker1719

torturer1830

c1560 Godly & Fruteful Treatise Wresters and wringers of thy holy scripture.

†4. One who causes pain, suffering, etc.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun]

sorrowOE

ail?c1225

scorpion?c1225

dolec1290

angera1325

anguishc1330

cupa1340

aggrievancea1400

discomfortc1405

afflictionc1429

sytec1440

pressurea1500

constraint1509

tenterhook1532

grief1535

annoying1566

troubler1567

griper1573

vexation1588

infliction1590

trouble1591

temptationc1595

load1600

torment1600

wringer1602

sorance1609

inflicting1611

brusha1616

freighta1631

woe-heart1637

ordeala1658

cut-up1782

unpleasure1792

iron maiden1870

mental cruelty1899

1602 Contention Liberalitie & Prodigalitie iv. ii. sig. D3^v Thistles, and nettles most horrible stingers, Rauens, grypes, and gryphons, oh vengible wringers.

II. Something that wrings.

†5. A crowbar. (Cf. ringer n.² 2) Obsolete.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun]

lever1297

speke1366

crowa1400

gavelock1497

prisea1500

handspoke1513

porter1538

sway1545

handspike1559

heaver1598

coleweigh1600

handspeek1644

forcer1649

ringer1650

ripping-chisel1659

pinch1685

crow-spike1692

Betty1700

wringer1703

crowbar1748

spike1771

pry1803

jemmy1811

crow-iron1817

dog1825

pinchbar1837

jimmy1848

stick1848

pry bar1872

peiser1873

nail bar1929

cane1930

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 48 They..united into one intire Body, so that they are forced to get them out with Wringers (or Iron-bars).

a. A wringing-machine.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > wringing > machine for

wringer1799

wringing-machine1833

power wringer1876

1799 Hull Advert. 15 June 2/4 Mr. Beetham's..patent wringer.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2822/1 Palmer's Combined Wringer and Mangle.

1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 298 Passing it between the rollers of the wringer.

b. Figurative phrase to put through the wringer and variants: to try or test (a person or, rarely, a thing); esp. to subject to severe questioning. slang (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > question, interrogate [verb (transitive)] > question intensively

apposec1315

opposec1380

demand1526

grate?1538

pump1611

sweat1764

probe1804

draw1854

grill1894

third-degree1928

to put through the wringer1942

1942 Sun (Baltimore) 20 June 15/1 With its capitalization put through the wringer through reorganization..the Erie board voted a payment of 550 cents a share.

1950 T. Sterling House without Door (1951) xviii. 196 Every one of them was being blackmailed..except one woman, and she was put through the wringer another way.

1965 J. Philips Twisted People iv. 56 We felt..that there had been sabotage... Everybody..was put through a wringer by the CIA.

1972 L. Lamb Pict. Frame xv. 133 Do you think we had better pick him up and put him through the wringer?

1977 D. Francis Risk xiv. 184 If I hadn't recently been through so many wringers..I wouldn't have given it another thought.

1984 Times 3 July 12/6 Not since the controversial Bishop of Durham..has an episcopal appointee been put through the wringer in this fashion.

7. A device for wringing hot fomentations before application.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > fomentation > device for wringing

wringer1884

1884 E. C. E. Lückes Lect. Nursing vii. 135 You will require new fomentation flannels and wringers.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 435 A good wringer is made by a strip of ticking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wringer
释义	wringern. Brit. /ˈrɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈrɪŋɡər/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s ringer. Etymology: < wring v. + -er suffix¹. Compare Old High German ringari (Middle High German, German ringer) wrestler. I. A person who wrings, extracts, or distorts. 1. An exactor, extortioner; an oppressor. ΘΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who wringera1300 askera1325 extortionerc1375 exactor1382 scaffer?a1513 shaver1534 caterpillar1541 bloodsucker?1555 suck-purse1586 griper1587 extortor1590 exacter1596 extorter1605 barathrum1609 wreather1648 shark1713 vampire1741 bleeder1846 flayer1865 extortionist1885 Shylock1894 a1300 Sarmun xxi, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 3 Such a wringer goþ to helle for litil gode þat nis noȝt his. 1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xxxvi, in Wks. sig. Cciii^v How lost you your welth?.. Who was your welthes wringer? 1578 T. White Serm. Pawles Crosse 3 Nov. 1577 56 Masters detayning seruaunts wages; a roring sinne, whiche shall make the wringers houle for it. a1618 J. Sylvester Sec. Sess. Parl. in Wks. (1880) II. 141 An Act against all greedy Wringers, Wrongers, Usurers, and Oppressors. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxii. 605 You're..a screwer by deputy, a wringer, and squeezer, and a shaver by substitute. 2. a. One who presses out juice or moisture. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > one who or that which extracts > by pressure wringera1425 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. xvi. 10 Y haue take awei the vois of wryngeris out [L. calcantium]. b. One who wrings clothes or the like after washing; one whose occupation consists in wringing. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > wringing > one who wrings clothes wringer1573 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. ii. 5 There dwels..his Laundry; his Washer, and his Ringer. a1638 R. Reyce Suffolk in 17th Cent. (1902) 22 Wringers, spinners, weavers, burlers. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 8/2 Old Leischen... who was..his washer and wringer. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 59 Gun Cotton Manufacture: Beater. Dipper. Wringer. in extended use.1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 102 Her waste so laste; her fingers sutch wringers. †3. a. One who twists or distorts. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion > one who or that which wringer1552 distorter1847 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wringer or wryster of a thinge out of ordre, elico. †b. = wrester n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > one who perverts adulterer?c1430 writher1498 perverter?a1500 wrester1533 corruptera1538 wringerc1560 racker1565 wreather1566 hackera1603 wracker1719 torturer1830 c1560 Godly & Fruteful Treatise Wresters and wringers of thy holy scripture. †4. One who causes pain, suffering, etc. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] sorrowOE ail?c1225 scorpion?c1225 dolec1290 angera1325 anguishc1330 cupa1340 aggrievancea1400 discomfortc1405 afflictionc1429 sytec1440 pressurea1500 constraint1509 tenterhook1532 grief1535 annoying1566 troubler1567 griper1573 vexation1588 infliction1590 trouble1591 temptationc1595 load1600 torment1600 wringer1602 sorance1609 inflicting1611 brusha1616 freighta1631 woe-heart1637 ordeala1658 cut-up1782 unpleasure1792 iron maiden1870 mental cruelty1899 1602 Contention Liberalitie & Prodigalitie iv. ii. sig. D3^v Thistles, and nettles most horrible stingers, Rauens, grypes, and gryphons, oh vengible wringers. II. Something that wrings. †5. A crowbar. (Cf. ringer n.² 2) Obsolete. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun] lever1297 speke1366 crowa1400 gavelock1497 prisea1500 handspoke1513 porter1538 sway1545 handspike1559 heaver1598 coleweigh1600 handspeek1644 forcer1649 ringer1650 ripping-chisel1659 pinch1685 crow-spike1692 Betty1700 wringer1703 crowbar1748 spike1771 pry1803 jemmy1811 crow-iron1817 dog1825 pinchbar1837 jimmy1848 stick1848 pry bar1872 peiser1873 nail bar1929 cane1930 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 48 They..united into one intire Body, so that they are forced to get them out with Wringers (or Iron-bars). 6. a. A wringing-machine. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > wringing > machine for wringer1799 wringing-machine1833 power wringer1876 1799 Hull Advert. 15 June 2/4 Mr. Beetham's..patent wringer. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2822/1 Palmer's Combined Wringer and Mangle. 1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 298 Passing it between the rollers of the wringer. b. Figurative phrase to put through the wringer and variants: to try or test (a person or, rarely, a thing); esp. to subject to severe questioning. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > question, interrogate [verb (transitive)] > question intensively apposec1315 opposec1380 demand1526 grate?1538 pump1611 sweat1764 probe1804 draw1854 grill1894 third-degree1928 to put through the wringer1942 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 20 June 15/1 With its capitalization put through the wringer through reorganization..the Erie board voted a payment of 550 cents a share. 1950 T. Sterling House without Door (1951) xviii. 196 Every one of them was being blackmailed..except one woman, and she was put through the wringer another way. 1965 J. Philips Twisted People iv. 56 We felt..that there had been sabotage... Everybody..was put through a wringer by the CIA. 1972 L. Lamb Pict. Frame xv. 133 Do you think we had better pick him up and put him through the wringer? 1977 D. Francis Risk xiv. 184 If I hadn't recently been through so many wringers..I wouldn't have given it another thought. 1984 Times 3 July 12/6 Not since the controversial Bishop of Durham..has an episcopal appointee been put through the wringer in this fashion. 7. A device for wringing hot fomentations before application. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > fomentation > device for wringing wringer1884 1884 E. C. E. Lückes Lect. Nursing vii. 135 You will require new fomentation flannels and wringers. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 435 A good wringer is made by a strip of ticking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1300
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