Crossword clues for mangle
mangle
- Make a mess of
- Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
- Ironer
- Laundry gear
- Spoil; botch
- Laundry machine
- Pressing machine
- Crush has fellow getting broken leg
- Old-fashioned laundry appliance
- Screw up masculine point of view
- Ruin rollers?
- Laundry appliance
- Completely botch
- Laundry item
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mangle \man"gle\, n. [D. mangel, fr. OE. mangonel a machine for throwing stones, LL. manganum, Gr. ? a machine for defending fortifications, axis of a pulley. Cf. Mangonel.] A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to mutilate," c.1400, from Anglo-French mangler, frequentative of Old French mangoner "cut to pieces," of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with Old French mahaignier "to maim, mutilate, wound" (see maim). Meaning "to mispronounce (words), garble" is from 1530s. Related: Mangled; mangling.
clothes-pressing machine, 1774, from Dutch mangel, apparently short for mangelstok, from stem of mangelen to mangle, from Middle Dutch mange, ultimately from root of mangonel.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. 2 The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. 2 (context transitive archaic English) To wring laundry. 3 (context transitive computing English) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
WordNet
n. clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
Wikipedia
A mangle or wringer is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and, in its home version, powered by a hand crank or electrically. While the appliance was originally used to wring water from wet laundry, today mangles are used to press or flatten sheets, tablecloths, kitchen towels, or clothing and other laundry.
Mangle can refer to:
- Mangle (machine), a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers
- Box mangle, an earlier laundry mangle using rollers and a heavy weight
- Mangled packet, in computing
- Mangrove, woody trees or shrubs
- Name mangling, in computing
- Animatronic Mangle, A Animatronic In Five Night's At Freddy's 2
Mangle is a comic book villain that appeared in the Malibu Comics Ultraverse book The Night Man.
Usage examples of "mangle".
From a stainless-steel cabinet in the corner he brought over two sealed specimen jars containing a mass of mangled human offal half immersed in a bloodied liquid.
They dashed along at a prodigious rate for a full hour, dreading every minute to come across the mangled corpse of Robert.
Reaching out of the tattered wreckage was a muscular, mangled arm made of dull flame and twisted shadow.
He picked up a mangled piece of the device and looked at it, as if seeing it for the first time.
The wretch screamed through a ruin of splintered teeth, blowing bloody froth from his mangled lips.
Only empty darkness met his eyes, into which the serpent had dragged a mangled, tattered object that only faintly resembled a human body.
The people gave back as the body came hurtling down, to smash on the marble pave, spattering blood and brains, and lie crushed in its splintered armor, like a mangled beetle.
From the jungle-edge to the river-bank, among the rotting pillars and along the broken piers they lay, torn and mangled and half-devoured, chewed travesties of men.
The bodies he saw littering the moon-splashed grass were of men, not beasts: hawk-faced, dark-skinned men, naked, transfixed by arrows or mangled by sword-strokes.
With appalling suddenness the charge had turned into a shambles where armored figures died amid screaming mangled horses.
Conan, slinging the precious jars across his shoulders, wincing at the contact with his mangled flesh.
The brutal manner in which Fallow had been mangled suggested the power of a giant - not the limited strength of a midget or a dwarf.
Grotesquely twisted, mangled to a hideous degree, the chemist had met the same fate that Meldon Fallow had encountered.
These were telling the populace that another mangled corpse had been discovered.
According to the newspaper, boys, playing in a vacant lot in the Bronx, had discovered a mangled body.