"Mangle" is the British term for what Americans call a "wringer".
--Charlene On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Sharon Collier <[email protected]> wrote: > I am reading a book, "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" and in > the part about laundry, the author says, "This made laundry day such a chore > that many better-off households hired a washerwoman to do it, since immense > amounts of water had to be boiled, the clothes blued and starched by hand, > ironed, and then put through a mangle, a tablelike contraption with two > rollers through which you rolled the clothing until it was pressed." > I would hate to have him doing my laundry! > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Bikes can't stand alone because they're two-tired. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
