Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - mangle
Mangle
mangle
1. n. & v. esp. Brit. hist. --n. a machine having two or more cylinders usu. turned by a handle, between which wet clothes etc. are squeezed and pressed. --v.tr. press (clothes etc.) in a mangle. Etymology: Du. mangel(stok) f. mangelen to mangle, ult. f. Gk magganon + stok staff, STOCK 2. v.tr. 1 hack, cut about, or mutilate by blows etc. 2 spoil (a quotation, text, etc.) by misquoting, mispronouncing, etc. 3 cut roughly so as to disfigure. Derivatives mangler n. Etymology: AF ma(ha)ngler, app. frequent. of mahaignier MAIM
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I. transitive verb (~d; mangling) see: mayhem Date: 15th century to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing , to spoil, injure, or make incoherent especially through ineptitude , see: maim ~r noun II. noun Etymology: Dutch mangel, from German, from Middle High German, diminutive of mange mangonel, ~, from Latin manganum Date: 1696 a machine for ironing laundry by passing it between heated rollers, III. transitive verb (~d; mangling) Date: circa 1775 to press or smooth (as damp linen) with a ~, ~r noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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