[…] they stridde ouer me, and slapped their buttockes vpon my face, and all bepissed me, till I was wringing wet:

1621, John Ashmore (translator), Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished, Ad Pirrham, Book 1, Ode 5, p. ,
I hung to th’ Sea god, after strange beseeches,
My doublet wringing wet, and cod-piec’t breeches.

The weather being fine and clear, we seized this opportunity to search for the leak, and, knowing it to be forwards, we moved the sails from the fore sail-room, and found them wringing wet;

It is almost impossible to sleep on the floor, because the damp soaks up from below. I was shown mattresses which were still wringing wet at eleven in the morning.

Wringing wet

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