wiper

ˈwaɪpər

WordNet

Bronze gunpowder test mortar on a djati wood base with striking device, mouth lid, wiper and spoon. No. 339. With inscription.

(n) wiper
a mechanical device that cleans the windshield
(n) wiper
contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet
(n) wiper
a worker who wipes

Illustrations

Two guns and a mortar on gun carriages. Behind the cannons are powder spoons, starters, wipers and fuse sticks and above the cannons hangs a bomb where grenades splash. At the bottom are arquebuses and quick marks. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.

A cannon and an organ cannon on mounts. Behind the cannons are powder spoons, starters, wipers and fuse sticks and above the cannons hangs a bomb where grenades splash. At the bottom are powder kegs and bullets. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact

Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

Wiper
(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.
Wiper
(Firearms) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.
Wiper
One who, or that which, wipes.
Wiper
Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

(n) wiper
Same as wiper-wheel. See the extract and also wipe-spark.
(n) wiper
A ring in a shaft-bearing, resting by its inner surface on the top of the shaft and hanging with its bottom elements in a bath of oil. As the shaft revolves the ring turns slowly with it, and brings up the oily parts of its surface which are wiped off by the grooves in which the ring is steadied.
(n) wiper
One who or that which wipes.
(n) wiper
That on which anything is wiped, as a hand-towel or a handkerchief.
(n) wiper
In machinery, a piece projecting generally from a horizontal axle, for the purpose of raising stampers, pounders, or pistons in a vertical direction and letting them fall by their own weight. Wipers are employed in fulling-mills, stamping-mills, oil-mills, powder-mills, etc. Also wipe.
(n) wiper
A steel implement for cleaning the bore of a musket, etc. It has two twisted arms, screws on the end of a ramrod, and carries a piece of cloth or a bunch of tow. The larger wipers for cleaning cannon are attached to a wooden stick, and are termed worms or sponges. See cut under gun.

Usage in the news

Test the wipers to assure blades are properly adjusted. 2.ljworld.com

Fix-It Chick: Install new wiper blades. 2.ljworld.com

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. Trico Products has announced the launch of the TRICO EX Factor fall wiper blade promotion. counterman.com

The researchers were not able to recover the ~DFXX.tmp files because they had been overwritten with garbage data during Wiper 's data destruction routine. pcworld.com

What they did not find was program code—the digital blueprint—that could have given them better insight into Wiper 's capabilities. eweek.com

Watch Wiper Plank in the Fitness Video. fitnessmagazine.com

The new 2987-399 wiper wheel from Yetter is now available as an attachment to the high-speed 2937 Magnum fertilizer coulter. farmindustrynews.com

The wiper wheel holds soil in place while the coulter blade opens a slot for fertilizer. farmindustrynews.com

Federal safety regulators say ice and snow can build up and restrict movement of the wipers . kmov.com

When you get stuck in a rain storm, having bad wiper blades can make driving extremely difficult. 2.ljworld.com

What's behind our wiper blade Ratings. consumerreports.org

Wiper blade buying guide. consumerreports.org

Ratings & recommended wiper blade s. consumerreports.org

Prepare you vehicle for long distance travel: Check your wipers and fluids. hispanicbusiness.com

There are two types of wiper blade technology. or710.com

Usage in scientific papers

Rubber friction is a topic of huge practical importance, e.g., for tires, rubber seals, wiper blades, conveyor belts and syringes [1–14].
Rolling friction for hard cylinder and sphere on viscoelastic solid

Usage in literature

He is drying them with the rubber wiper. "David Lockwin--The People's Idol" by John McGovern

This pretty little pen-wiper is covered with small circles of cloth. "Beeton's Book of Needlework" by Isabella Beeton

I saw him once, and his face looked as if he'd been rubbing it on a pen-wiper! "Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple" by Sophie May

Ypres, or Wipers, as Tommy Atkins called it, was then considered a "hot" spot. "Private Peat" by Harold R. Peat

Just to satisfy my own mind on the matter I sent a telegram to the engine wiper at Sprague, asking him if No. "The Best Ghost Stories" by Various

If, when a newly-married couple go to housekeeping, she slyly takes her mother's dish-cloth or dish-wiper, she will never be homesick. "Current Superstitions" by Various

Get on that engine, my boy; take this one wiper left for a fireman, and pull out. "Danger Signals" by John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

That's what I set out to be when I started as wiper. "Torchy As A Pa" by Sewell Ford

That's a wiper, and I wiped him out. "Fitz the Filibuster" by George Manville Fenn

Some men are here to-day and the far side of Wipers to-morrow night. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916" by Various

Usage in poetry

Jim's horse was a thoroughbed half-bred,
With a raspberry mark on his left hock,
And on his what-not a screen-wiper he'd got,
To stop the flies tickling his fetlock.

"A Tale Of The Rockies" by Billy Bennett

So, Willy, let me and you be wipers
Of scores out with all men—-especially pipers!
And, whether they pipe us free frm rats or frm mice,
If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise!

"The Pied Piper Of Hamelin" by Robert Browning