Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mangling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mangle \Man"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mangled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mangling}.] [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS.
mancian, in bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed;
perh. akin to G. mangeln to be wanting.]
1. To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a
ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in
cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to
mutilate.
Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
--Milton.
2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining;
as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
To mangle a play or a novel. --Swift.
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