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Mangle
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
- 2 Synonym of mangrove.; Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). Caribbean, US
- 3 clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers wordnet
- 4 The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
"There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine."
- 5 Synonym of mangrove.; A forest of such trees. Caribbean, US
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- 6 Synonym of mangrove.; Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat. Caribbean, US
- 1 To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc. transitive
"mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail"
- 2 To wring laundry. archaic, transitive
- 3 damage or injure severely wordnet
- 4 To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. transitive
- 5 alter so as to make unrecognizable wordnet
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- 6 injure badly by beating wordnet
- 7 press with a mangle wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English mangelen, manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem. Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.
Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel.
Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel.
Borrowed from Spanish mangle, mangue, probably from an Arawak language (such as Taíno), or a Cariban language.
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