Mangle
['mæŋg(ə)l] or ['mæŋɡl]
Definition
(noun.) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers.
(verb.) alter so as to make unrecognizable; 'The tourists murdered the French language'.
(verb.) press with a mangle; 'mangle the sheets'.
Checker: Mortimer--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(v. t.) To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
(n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.
(n.) To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
Typist: Maxine
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Lacerate, hack, tear (in cutting).
Inputed by Cecile
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MAIM_and_LACERATE]
Typist: Remington
Definition
n. a rolling-press for smoothing linen.—v.t. to smooth with a mangle: to calender.—n. Mang′ler.
v.t. to cut and bruise: to tear in cutting: to mutilate: to take by piecemeal.—n. Mang′ler.
Checker: Otis
Examples
- If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She had seen him handle tools that he had borrowed to mend the mangle, or to knock a broken piece of furniture together, in a surprising manner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The old-style mangle had a box, weighted with stone, which was reciprocated on rollers, and was run back and forth upon the clothes spread upon a polished table beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nor Our Johnny, he scarce know'd either, for sometimes when the mangle lumbers he says, “Me choking, Granny! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I can take only three, on account of the Mangle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then the old-fashioned, or the new-fashioned mangle is brought into play. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The beasts tore the victims limb from limb and made poor mangled corpses of them in the twinkling of an eye. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If wounded, the surgeon dresses his mangled limb with rubber bandages, and when he gets well he has a rubber cushion on the end of his crutch, or on the foot of his artificial leg. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The sight of the mangled and dying men which met my eye as I boarded the ship was sickening. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All of them were scalped and otherwise horribly mangled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A mangled, painful limb, which cannot be restored, we willingly cut off. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- See, in the mangled corpses of the last remains of the tribe, how effectually we have afforded it to them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- How long has this new set-to been in mangling then? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Sloppy they left behind, relieving his overcharged breast with a paroxysm of mangling. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Tis very nonsense of an old man to prattle so when life and death's in mangling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Checker: Mollie