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roller ironer

roller ironer

7.9
A large machine with a hot roller that irons and dries things like sheets and tablecloths
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : planchadora
  • The hotel uses a roller ironer to quickly press bed sheets and tablecloths.

Examples

  • At the laundry facility, a large roller ironer made the linens crisp and smooth.

  • Modern households rarely own a roller ironer due to its size and cost.

  • The roller ironer is essential for our laundry business.

  • I bought a new roller ironer last week.

  • At the laundry facility, a large roller ironer made the linens crisp and smooth.

  • The hotel uses a roller ironer to quickly press bed sheets and tablecloths.

  • Modern households rarely own a roller ironer due to its size and cost.

Synonyms

mangle
vsroller ironer
  • Archaic
1 9.1

A machine that presses laundry between heavy rollers

uses a single large heated cylinder rather than two cylinders
ironer
vsroller ironer
1 4.4

A person or machine that removes wrinkles from clothes by pressing them

refers only to a machine used to press and dry linens
flatwork ironer
vsroller ironer
  • Specialized
9.9

A large machine that irons and dries sheets and tablecloths in laundries

is the same machine but not limited to commercial laundry settings

How Industrial

industrial
71 3.5
roller ironer
  • Specialized
7.9
steam iron
1 1.8
iron
70 1.0

Surface Forms

roller ironer singular

Morphology

roller + ironer

The compound combines 'roller' (a cylinder that flattens or moves material) with 'ironer' (a device that smooths fabric), so its meaning—a machine that irons using a large heated roller—is directly inferable from the parts. This noun+noun compounding follows a transparent, cross-linguistic composition pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

Roller ironer names a machine that uses a large, heated roller to press and dry sheets and table linens. The parts are literal: the roller turns and the ironer part means it 'irons' the cloth, so the name simply says it smooths and dries linen quickly.