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wiper

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wiper
1. any piece of cloth, such as a handkerchief, towel, etc., used for wiping
2. a cam rotated to ease a part and allow it to fall under its own weight, as used in stamping machines, etc.
4. Electrical engineering a movable conducting arm, esp one in a switching or selecting device, that makes contact with a row or ring of contacts

wiper [′wī·pər]
(electricity)
That portion of the moving member of a selector, or other similar device, in communications practice, which makes contact with the terminals of a bank.


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So help me gracious, I have a wiper in the bag, an' I'll drop it on your 'ead if you don't hook it.
Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closely resembling the floral pen- wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose- trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on a rose- branch flowered with a luxuriance prophetic of Mr.
 
 
 
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