MANGLE
1 —none. Machine of two or more cylinders for squeezing water from and pressing wet clothes. —verb. (-ling) press (clothes etc.) In a mangle. [dutch mangel]
1 —none. Machine of two or more cylinders for squeezing water from and pressing wet clothes. —verb. (-ling) press (clothes etc.) In a mangle. [dutch mangel]
2 verb. (-ling) 1 hack or mutilate by blows. 2 spoil (a text etc.) By gross blunders. 3 cut roughly so as to disfigure. [anglo-french ma(ha)ngler: probably related to *maim]