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.Man"gle, n. [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.
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.
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