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Definition of Mangles

Mangle
Mangle Man"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mangling.] [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.
Mangle
Mangle Man"gle, v. t. [Cf. D. mangelen. See Mangle, n.] To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
Mangle
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. 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.

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- Look up mangles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mangles may refer to several things and people, mostly related to the one family: Mangles family James...
- 2 Mangel (disambiguation) Mangles (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Mangle. If an internal link led you...
- "The Mangler" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the December 1972 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection...
- Roll Mangle Co. of 108 Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois, offered a gas-heated home mangle for pressing linens in 1902. In the 1930s electric mangles were...
- Look up mangling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term mangling may refer to: name mangling in computer software using a mangle as a laundry device...
- Commonwealth forces. Mangles is one of only five civilians to be awarded the Victoria Cross. Mangles was the son of Ross Donnelly Mangles, sometime chairman...
- for the Mangles family and Ellen Stirling (née Mangles), the wife of Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling. The bay's seabed consists of the Mangles Bay shallows...
- after the English MP, Ross Donnelly Mangles, one of the company's directors. The official name was gazetted as Mangles River on 27 May 2021. River pollution...
- Manglors was a line of action figures originally released by the Ideal Toy Company in 1984-85 and re-licensed by Toyfinity in 2013. The first wave consisted...
- of early colonial Western Australia. Mangles was the son of John Mangles (1760–1837), brother of James Mangles (1762–1838), the Member of Parliament...