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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mangle \Man"gle\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mangling}.] [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS. mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln 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 lacerate; to mutilate.
Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. --Milton.
2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
To mangle a play or a novel. --Swift.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
mangle \man"gle\, noun [D. mangel, fr. OE. mangonel a machine for throwing stones, LL. manganum, Gr. ? a machine for defending fortifications, axis of a pulley. Cf. {Mangonel}.] A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mangle \Man"gle\ (m[a^][ng]"g'l), verb (used with an object) [Cf. D. mangelen. See {Mangle}, noun] To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mangle
noun: clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
verb
1: press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"
2: injure badly by beating [syn: {maul}]
3: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language" [syn: {mutilate}, {murder}]
4: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work" [syn: {mutilate}, {cut up}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "mangle": bung up, butcher, calender, contort, cripple, crush, cut, damage, deface, defoliate, deform, denude, destroy, disfigure, dismember, distort, draw and quarter, flay, hack, hot-press, impair, injure, iron, lacerate, maim, mar, maul, mutilate, peel, pick to pieces, press, pull apart, roll, ruin, shred, skin, spoil, strip, take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, wreck
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
mangle vt.
1. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed. 2. To produce the {mangled name} corresponding to a C++ declaration.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
mangle Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed.
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