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 µfiy7avov, a trick or device, cognate with µllmavn, 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 .