(archaic) A device for pressing or compressing, especially for cider.

A powerful squeezing or twisting action. / (obsolete) Pain or distress.

To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. / To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wring

plural of wring

The act by which something is wrung.

present participle of wring

plural of wringing

simple past tense and past participle of wring

To squeeze (wet clothing or cloth), either by twisting with one's hands, or by passing it through a wringer, to remove the water. / To force someone to give (something), usually truth, or money.