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Encyclopedia Britannica



MANGLE

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 571 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MANGLE . (r) A
machine
  for pressing and smoothing' clothes after washing (see
LAUNDRY
 ). The word was adopted from the Dutch; mangel-stok means a
rolling
  pin, and linnen.mangelgn, to
press
  linen by
rolling
 ; similarly in O. Ital. mangano .meant, according to Florio, " a presse to
press
  buckrom," &c.. The origin of the word is to be found in the medieval Latin name, manganum, mangonus or mangana, for an
engine
  of war, the " mangonel," for hurling stones and other missiles (see CATAPULT). The Latin word was adapted from the
Greek
  fiy7avov, a
trick
  or device, cognate with llmavn, a
machine
 . (2) To cut in pieces, to damage or disfigure; to mutilate. This word is of obscure origin. According to the New
English
  Dictionary it presents an Anglo-French. mahangler, a form of mahaigner from which the
English
  " maim " is derived, cf. the old form " mayhem," surviving in legal phraseology.
Skeat
  connects the word with the Latin mancus, maimed, with which " maim " is not cognate.


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