windscreen-wiper

See also: windscreen wiper

English

Noun

windscreen-wiper (plural windscreen-wipers)

Alternative form of windscreen wiper.
- 1994 August 7, Irving Wardle, “Edinburgh Festival 1994: Without any word of mouth”, in The Independent‎^[1], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 November 2010:
  The programme book for the Berlin production opens with the image of an empty car whose windscreen-wipers mysteriously start up; […]
- 2001 January 2, “Professor John Green”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[2], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 February 2016:
  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.
- 2006 April 11, Giles Smith, “Never mind the obscurity of the badge”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 September 2014:
  Not even the windscreen-wipers interrupt the smoothness of the lines arching back through the low-pitched, coupe-style windscreen.