spin-dryer

British

noun

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

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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.

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