windscreen-wiper

A form of windscreen wiper — A device used to clear rain and dirt from a windscreen; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade.

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Meanings

nounwindscreen-wiper (plural windscreen-wipers)

plural windscreen-wipers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of windscreen wiper.

    Not even the windscreen-wipers interrupt the smoothness of the lines arching back through the low-pitched, coupe-style windscreen.

    2006 April 11, Giles Smith, “Never mind the obscurity of the badge”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2014
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    The programme book for the Berlin production opens with the image of an empty car whose windscreen-wipers mysteriously start up; […]

    1994 August 7, Irving Wardle, “Edinburgh Festival 1994: Without any word of mouth”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2010

    Powered by electric motors designed for aircraft windscreen-wipers, the tiny trains were capable of giving a ride to Green and a lucky child down the garden and back.

    2001 January 2, “Professor John Green”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2016
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