mangle
noun/ˈmæŋɡl/
/ˈmæŋɡl/
(also wringer)
- a machine with two rollers used especially in the past for pressing the water out of clothes that had been washedWord 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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