mangle : Idioms & Phrases

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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.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

mingle-mangle

  • noun a motley assortment of things
    hotchpotch; farrago; ragbag; oddments; hodgepodge; odds and ends; omnium-gatherum; melange; gallimaufry; mishmash.
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Min"gle-man`gle transitive verb
Etymology
Reduplicated fr. mingle.
Definitions
  1. To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. Obs. Udall.
Min"gle-man`gle noun
Definitions
  1. A hotchpotch. Obs. Latimer.
Webster 1913

rhizophora mangle

  • noun a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building
    mangrove.
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