Looking round home by turn in road -- and part of laundry (4-6)

I believe the answer is:

spin-drying

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'part of laundry' is the definition.
(washing machine process)

'looking round home by turn in road' is the wordplay.
'looking' becomes 'spying'.
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'home by' becomes 'in' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'turn in' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'road' becomes 'rd' (abbreviation).
'rd' backwards is 'dr'.
'in'+'dr'='indr'
'spying' enclosing 'indr' is 'SPIN-DRYING'.

'and' acts as a link.

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