MANGLE

Mangle

A mangle or wringer is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and, in its home version, powered by a hand crank or electrically. While the appliance was originally used to wring water from wet laundry, today mangles are used to press or flatten sheets, tablecloths, kitchen towels, or clothing and other laundry.

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mangle

Noun

  1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

Verb

  1. To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
  2. To wring laundry.
  3. To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.


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