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Definition of Manglers
1. mangler [n] - See also: mangler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manglers
Literary usage of Manglers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work. By Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny (1863)
"Washers, Ironers, and manglers. The plan of washing by steam is said to have been
practised many years back in France. Thero were, some years ago, ..."
2. Report of the Social Survey Committee of the Consumers' League of Oregon on by Edwin Vincent O'Hara (1913)
"manglers $1.35 to $1.50 pe day. Folders $1.25 to $1.35 pe day. ... Body manglers
$1.75 to $2.00 pe day. Ironers $1.50 to $2.00 pe day. TABLE 13. ..."
3. Standard Specifications for Personal Service by New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Standards (1917)
"COMPENSATION— Laundry Helper A (Women employed as manglers, Counters, Markers
and Sorters of ward linen, Shakers and Folders): Range of annual compensation ..."
4. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1888)
"Of the chronologists, medalists, etc.,—the pioneers of historical criticism,—he
says that some of them " act the Part of Executioners, and manglers of ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... Coarse manglers of the human f.ice divine; Paint on, "till fate dissolve thy
mortal part, And live and die the monarch of thy art. ..."
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