spin-dryer

noun

1. a device that extracts water from clothes, linen, etc, by spinning them in a perforated drum

Example Sentences

Parts of the former office complex are now a museum open to the public, but in one corridor normally closed to the public there is a jumble of dated-looking equipment - a primitive computer looking more like a spin-dryer for clothes and old magnetic discs the size of a football, which held a fraction of what you can now fit on a USB stick.

From BBC

I was flattered, and then ... ah, I knew the tune: Clearly a dangerous yet classic fairy-tale scheme, this paternal offering of a child, lost in the romantic fiction of running away to a developed country-a Western hall pass; beelining to college; jobs; nightclubs; an engagement ring; a house with a garden, a refrigerator, and a spin-dryer; a white wedding with a husband wistfully agreeing to the Polynesian Love Dream-a newer, broader life unregimented by copra, the coconut tree, or the black pearl.

From Time Magazine Archive