mangle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   press with a mangle

   mangle the sheets

2. 2
   verb

   To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.

   mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

5. 5
   verb

   destroy or injure severely

6. 6
   verb

   alter so as to make unrecognizable

7. 7
   verb

   injure badly by beating

8. 8
   verb

   To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

Etymology

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.