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noun

Wiper n.

One who, or that which, wipes.

Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.

(Mach.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.

(Firearms) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wiper" Quotes from Famous Books

... What are parties given for in London but—that enemies may meet? I grant you it's inconceivable that the husband of a superb creature like your sister should find his requirements better met by an object comme cette petite, who looks like a pen-wiper—an actress's idea of one—made up for a theatrical bazaar. At the same time, if you'll allow me to say so, it scarcely strikes one that your sister's prudence is such as to have placed all the cards in her hands. She's ...

— The Awkward Age • Henry James

... covered outside with thick cardboard on which pretty pictures were pasted. It was very cleverly made, for Bob was wonderfully neat-handed for such a little boy, and it had taken quite a lot of contrivance to get it done without his sister's finding out about it. And Ruth's present was a pen-wiper. ...

— The Thirteen Little Black Pigs - and Other Stories • Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth

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