mangel

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Farms are abandoned—or bought by rich men who make park lands and lawns o' the fields where the potato and the mangel wurzel, the corn and the barley, grew yesteryear.

From Between You and Me by Lauder, Harry, Sir

Of the different varieties of the mangel the long yellow appears to be the most nutritious, and the long red the least so.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

I must just take a look at my mangel, and my orchard, which you must know is my piggery.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

"I'm afraid, my dear young lady, I know very little of agricultural matters; in fact I don't know the difference between a mangel and a wurzel."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 by Various

The substitution of mangel for the original mangold, was probably an attempt to correct some vulgar error in orthography; or to substitute a word of some significance for one of none.

From Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George