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mangle
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Definition:a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and, in its home version, powered by a hand crank or electricity. While the appliance was originally used to wring water from wet laundry, today mangles are used to press or flatten sheets, tablecloths, kitchen towels, or clothing and other laundry.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
photo: By Johan Palme, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=426848
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with models of the best mangles, washing-machines, clothes-wringers,
Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Chimney-Corner
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When, under cover of the night, I flew to Miss Mills, whom I saw by stealth in a back kitchen where there was a mangle, and implored Miss Mills to interpose between us and avert insanity.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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there was a smell of tobacco and whitewash, and a bright fire, and a lamp, and a stand of muskets, and a drum, and a low wooden bedstead, like an overgrown mangle without the machinery, capable of holding about a dozen soldiers all at once.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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the carpeter made a mangle, hooks were put in the cupboards,
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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