MANGLE

mangle

(noun) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

mutilate, mangle, cut up

(verb) destroy or injure severely; “The madman mutilates art work”

mangle, mutilate, murder

(verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable; “The tourists murdered the French language”

maul, mangle

(verb) injure badly by beating

mangle

(verb) press with a mangle; “mangle the sheets”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

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

(transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

Etymology 2

Noun

mangle (plural mangles)

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

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

Verb

mangle (third-person singular simple present , present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

(transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.

Etymology 3

Noun

mangle (plural mangles)

mangrove (tree)

Anagrams

• Gelman, leg man, legman, lemang, mangel

Etymology

Proper noun

Mangle

A surname.

Anagrams

• Gelman, leg man, legman, lemang, mangel

Source: Wiktionary

Man"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mangling.] Etym: [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS. mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln to be wanting.]

1. 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. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation. To mangle a play or a novel. Swift.

Man"gle, n. Etym: [D. mangel, fr. OE. mangonel a machine for throwing stones, LL. manganum, Gr. Mangonel.]

Definition: A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure. Mangle rack (Mach.), 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.

Man"gle, v. t. Etym: [Cf. D. mangelen. See Mangle, n.]

Definition: To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition