[ring-er] 
| 1. | a person or thing that wrings. |
| 2. | an apparatus or machine for squeezing liquid out of anything wet, as two rollers through which an article of wet clothing may be squeezed. |
| 3. | a painful, difficult, or tiring experience; ordeal (usually prec. by through the): His child's illness really put him through the wringer. |
| wring·er (rĭng'ər) n. One that wrings, especially a device in which laundry is pressed between rollers to extract water. |
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