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whizzer

American

[hwiz-er, wiz-] / ˈʰwɪz ər, ˈwɪz- /

noun

something that whizzes.
a centrifugal machine for drying sugar, grain, clothes, etc.

Etymology

Origin of whizzer

First recorded in 1880–85; whiz ¹ + -er ¹

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whizzer

Click went the machine, and the whizzer stopped whizzing.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl

The typical whizzer is a vertical column fed at the bottom and delivering at the top.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

You’re fast with your guns, but you can’t run any whizzer in on me—you can’t intimidate me.

From 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer

It's mighty easy to run a whizzer when you've got the only loaded gun in camp.

From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Small whizzer used in sacred and medicine dances.

From Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 by James Stevenson

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