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Wiper   Listen
noun
Wiper  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, wipes.
2.
Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.
3.
(Mach.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.
4.
(Firearms) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.





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"Wiper" Quotes from Famous Books



... what the public wants. But all the same, it's been done time out of mind before. Why, I've seen photographs of you and your arm-chair and your pen-wiper and so on, half a score of times ...
— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad


Words linked to "Wiper" :   rheostat, contact arm, automotive vehicle, variable resistor, wiper motor, contact, tangency, worker, wiper blade, motor vehicle, selector switch, wiper arm, mechanical device, selector, windshield wiper, wipe, windscreen wiper


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