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Maim fellow by breaking leg (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mangle

'maim' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'fellow by breaking leg' is the wordplay.
'fellow' becomes 'man' (fellow can mean a man).
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'breaking' indicates an anagram.
'leg' is an anagram of 'gle'.
'man'+'gle'='MANGLE'

(Other definitions for mangle that I've seen before include "Old-fashioned laundry appliance" , "Clothes-wringer for leg-man" , "Ruin" , "Mutilate badly; wringer" , "rolling-press" .)

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