GK Crossword Sat 8

[limerick]

hi everyone...........this one has me stumped......any help would be gladly appreciated........41D...M?N?L?...laundry device usually hand operated, consisting of a pair of heavy rollers.................

thanks in advance:-)

[slaney]

Mangle

[limerick]

thanks slaney..........once again you have saved me sanity...i never have heared of that before though

[slaney]

You're probably too young, limerick !
This is what they looked like...

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:rgVlh9fKk hQJ:www.ingenious.org.uk/see/societyandwars/do mesticlifeandhouseholdmanagement/%3Ftarget%3DS eeMedium%26ObjectID%3D%257B3A049106-CF51-6F68- 70BE-17BE0B84392A%257D%26viewby%3Dimages+acme+ mangle&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk

[grasscarp]

We had a washing maching that had a mangle on top of it. My poor mother caught her hand in it one day.

[limerick]

i do remember me ma having of one of them......the wringer washer.............but i nay ever heared of the mangle part..........was it the part that you turned?

[Rollo]

Here is a really old fashioned mangle. see the wheel you turn with the handle attached.

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/Home/Home-and -Household/Household-Products/Household-Produc ts-135.html

[limerick]

yep i see the wheel and the mangle.............or is the wheel the mangle?................thank jaysus we nay have them anymore:-)

[Rollo]

The whole contraption is the mangle.

You can also call it a wringer if you want to.

[limerick]

thanks rollo...........now i get it......and i think i knew it as a wringer..........not a mangle.............whew that took lots of work :-)