| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| mangle2 |
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| SYLLABICATION: | man·gle |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m ng g l |
| NOUN: | 1. A machine for pressing fabrics by means of heated rollers. 2. Chiefly British A clothes wringer. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: man·gled, man·gling, man·gles
To press with a mangle. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Dutch mangel, from German, from Middle High German, diminutive of mange, mangonel, from Late Latin manganum, catapult. See mangonel.
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