1. plural of mangler: machines that press and smooth cloth or clothing using heated rollers
Usage: historical; laundry equipment
2. plural of mangler: people or things that damage, destroy, or ruin something badly

Examples

• The old laundry had several large manglers for pressing bed sheets.
• Victorian households often used manglers to smooth their linens.
• The translation manglers made the original text nearly unreadable.
• These software manglers corrupted all the data files.
• The antique manglers in the museum still worked perfectly.
• Critics called the renovators manglers of historic architecture.