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wiper
noun
Someone who wipes.
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The report also cites increasingly sophisticated techniques, which include dissolving the drug in solvents to smuggle it across the border disguised as flavoured drinks or hidden in windshield wiper reservoirs.
A typical skimmer uses rotating drums or discs of plastic onto which the oil clings and is then scraped off by something like a windscreen wiper.
The car has only one windscreen wiper; its wheels are held on by three bolts, not four; the steering column is hollow; instead of long-life headlight bulbs designed to last ten years, cheaper bulbs are fitted that can be easily replaced.
"Both wiper fluid and gasoline are indispensable, but they don't get the same share of wallet".Indeed, for many marketers, Twitter is what they buy after they have filled up with their core digital fuel: Google and Facebook.Birthdays provide an opportunity for reflection.
The driver could see nothing: her windscreen wiper scraped to a halt.
However, her mother, Charlotte Bridgwood, did invent and patent the electric windshield wiper in 1917.
A strip of continental material was torn away from the southern margin of the Paleo-Tethys and migrated northward, rotating around the western apex of the Tethyan triangle much like the action of a windshield wiper.
Well, like me, he wouldn't appreciate the piggy-like squeak from the front passenger seat, (I mean with no one occupying it), and he would be upset that the rear wiper didn't work.
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Fixing parking tickets to car windows with bright orange stickers (rather than a piece of paper under the windscreen-wiper) attracts the attention of passing cars and makes drivers less inclined to park illegally, because the risk of being caught seems higher.
In the wheel the cutter arm rotates in one direction; in a variant model it oscillates back and forth in a windshield-wiper action that is most suitable in wet, sticky ground.
Flash of Genius (115 mins, 1A) Indie drama based on the true story of a Detroit engineering lecturer (Greg Kinnear) whose windscreen-wiper mechanism is stolen by Ford, and who sacrifices years of his life and much of his sanity struggling for legal restitution.
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