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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Mangle

Măn’gle, v. t.

verbtransitive

(măng'gl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. MANGLED; p. pr. & vb. n. MANGLING.] [L. Ger. mank, deficient, mutilated; D. mank, halt, lame; hence, A-S. be-mancian, to maim, behead, be-mancud, maimed, beheaded; Icel. minka, to lessen, decrease; allied to Lat. mancus, maimed, infirm, whence L. Lat. mancus, debilitated, mutilated, mancare, to mutilate; Arm. mank, monk, deprived of an arm or hand; O. H. Ger. mangalôn, N. H. Ger. mangeln, D. mangelen, 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 hack; to lacerate; to mutilate;—applied chiefly to the cutting of flesh. “And seized with fear, forgot his mangled meat.” Dryden.
  2. To curtail; to take by piecemeal.

Măn'gle, n.

noun

(măng'gl), n. [D. mangel, Dan. mangle, Ger. mangel, mange, from O. Fr. mangonel, Gr. μάγγανον, a machine for throwing stones, the axle of a pulley. See MANGONEL, infra.] A rolling-press or calender for smoothing linen. It is an oblong wooden box filled with stones, resting upon two cylinders which roll backward and forward over the linen, spread upon a polished table, motion being given to the box by a crank or otherwise, and sometimes regulated by a fly-wheel.

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.

Măng'gle, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To smooth with a mangle; to calender, as linen.