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Definition of Mangle

1. Verb. Press with a mangle. "They mangle the cape "; "Mangle the sheets"

2. Noun. Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers.

3. Verb. Injure badly by beating.

4. Verb. Alter so as to make unrecognizable. "The tourists murdered the French language"

5. Verb. Destroy or injure severely. "The madman mutilates art work"

Definition of Mangle

1. v. t. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.

2. n. A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

3. v. t. To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

Definition of Mangle

1. Verb. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive archaic) To wring laundry. ¹

3. Noun. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. ¹

4. Noun. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mangle

1. to cut, slash, or crush so as to disfigure [v -GLED, -GLING, -GLES]

Medical Definition of Mangle

1. A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure. Mangle rack, a contrivance for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and pinion, as in the mangle. The pinion is held to the rack by a groove in such a manner that it passes alternately from one side of the rack to the other, and thus gives motion to it in opposite directions, according to the side in which its teeth are engaged. Mangle wheel, a wheel in which the teeth, or pins, on its face, are interrupted on one side, and the pinion, working in them, passes from inside to outside of the teeth alternately, thus converting the continuous circular motion of the pinion into a reciprocating circular motion of the wheel. Origin: D. Mangel, fr. OE. Mangonel a machine for throwing stones, LL. Manganum, Gr. A machine for defending fortifications, axis of a pulley. Cf. Mangonel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mangle

mangers mangery manges mangetout mangey manghir mangier mangiest mangiferin mangily

manginas manginess manginesses manging mangle (current term) mangled mangler manglers mangles manglietia

mangling manglings mango mango dermatitis mango juice mango juices mango tree mangoed mangoes

Literary usage of Mangle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"mangle. It. mangano, a tent-post, mill-post, upright of a crane, ... G. m.ange, mangel, mandel, machine for giving a gloss to linen, calender, mangle; ..."

2. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1869)
"6d., though a small sum for the mangle, was a very large sum for Mrs. Mullins to raise. She was a brave woman, however, and went on putting away her coppers ..."

3. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of by Society of Arts (Great Britain, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1827)
"I WILL thank you to lay before the Society of Arts, &c. the accompanying model of a new and simple method of producing the alternate motion of a mangle-box, ..."

4. Principles of Mechanism: A Treatise on the Modification of Motion by Means by Stillman Williams Robinson (1896)
"mangle Wheels and Racks. The pitch lines of these movements have been ... For a mangle rack with variable velocity-ratio, the pinion for the same may be ..."

5. Principles of Mechanism: A Treatise on the Modification of Motion by Means by Stillman Williams Robinson (1896)
"mangle Wheels and Racks. The pitch lines of these movements have been ... For a mangle rack with variable velocity-ratio, the pinion for the same may be ..."

6. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"The two varieties of Rhizophora mangle, the " mangle chico " and the " mangle grande."—The floating vegetable drift of the Guayaquil River. ..."

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