Look up: mangle

1. mangle
   Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed.
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2. mangle
   [n] - clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers 2. [v] - press with a mangle 3. [v] - alter so as to make unrecognizable
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3. mangle
   a machine whose purpose is to express liquid from moving textiles by passage through a nip.The textile may be in rope form or in open width,and the mangle may consist of two or more rollers or bowls running in contact Category: Various industries and crafts • a machine for ironing laundr...
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4. Mangle
   Man'gle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mangled ; present participle & verbal noun Mangling .] [ A frequentative from Middle English manken to main, Anglo-Saxon man...
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5. Mangle
   Man'gle noun [ Dutch mangel , from Middle English mangonel a machine for throwing stones, Late Latin manganum , Greek ... a machine for defending fortifications, axis of a pulley. Confer Mangonel .] A machine for smoothing lin...
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6. Mangle
   Man'gle transitive verb [ Confer Dutch mangelen . See Mangle , noun ] To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
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7. mangle
   A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure. ... <machinery> 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 pin...
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8. mangle
   noun clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
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9. mangle
   verb alter so as to make unrecognizable; `The tourists murdered the French language`
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10. Mangle
    • (v. t.) To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation. • (n.) To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth. • (n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pres...
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11. Mangle
    A mangle is a machine for wringing or squeezing water out of wet washing. A
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12. mangle
    a machine consisting of a crank attached to two rollers, used to wring water out of clothes.
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13. Mangle
    (machine) History : The first geared wringer mangle in the UK is thought to date to about 1850, when one was invented by Robert Tasker of Lancashire. It was a smaller, upright version of the box mangle. Box mangles were large and primarily intended for pressing laundry smooth; they were used ...
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14. Mangle
    (comics) `Mangle` is a comic book villain that appeared in the Malibu Comics Ultraverse book The Night Man. Fictional character biography: Jeremiah Stürm an awkward and scholarly history teacher, who took a job tutoring Guy Hunt, the young son of J.D. Hunt, owner of Nu-Ware, one of ...
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