Mangle vs Hangle - What's the difference?
mangle | hangle |
To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
* Milton
* Jonathan Swift
(archaic) To wring laundry.
(computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
A form of hanger by which the scabbard of a sword was suspended, attached not necessarily to the girdle, but sometimes to two rings fastened to the cuirass at its bottom edge, one over the left hip, the other near the middle of the back.
As nouns the difference between mangle and hangle
is that mangle is a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry while hangle is a hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.As a verb mangle
is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.mangle
English
(wikipedia mangle)Verb
(mangl)- mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
- when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel
