Sekirov Dictionary

mangle

/ˈmæŋ.ɡ(ə)l/

noun 6
verb 3
forms 5

noun6

A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
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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. — 1993
(US, Caribbean) Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
(US, Caribbean) 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.
(US, Caribbean) Synonym of mangrove.
(US, Caribbean) A forest of such trees.

verb3

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To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
- when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel — 1703
To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
(no longer used) To wring laundry.

forms

mangled · mangling · mangles · mangleth · manglest

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