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Definition of mangle noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

mangle

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/ˈmæŋɡl/
 
/ˈmæŋɡl/
(also wringer)
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  1. a machine with two rollers used especially in the past for pressing the water out of clothes that had been washed
    Word Originnoun late 17th cent.: from Dutch mangel, from mangelen ‘to mangle’, from medieval Latin mango, manga, from Greek manganon ‘axis, engine of war’.
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