Mangle (Noun)
Meaning
Clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The mangle in my grandmother's laundry room was used for years to dry and iron her family's clothes.
- She struggled to fold the large tablecloth after it had been through the mangle.
- In the old days, people used a mangle to smooth out wrinkles in their clothing.
- The laundry room still had a vintage mangle that the family used for special occasions.
- My mother remembered helping her mother feed sheets through the mangle on Sundays.