whizzer
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Origin of whizzer
Example Sentences
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Click went the machine, and the whizzer stopped whizzing.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
The washer is followed by a whizzer, which is an apparatus intended to free the berry by purely mechanical means from superfluous moisture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Clay he's the best-natured fellow you ever did see, but there can't nobody run a whizzer on him, y' betcha.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod
You’re goin’ to run a whizzer in on ’em—playin’ ’em for suckers.
From 'Drag' Harlan by Seltzer, Charles Alden
The atmosphere is always very moist about a whizzer, and there are frequently injurious fumes.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
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