mangel

Example Sentences

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Grow a large stock of beet by all means - either a mangel or a tankard.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

Twenty paces brought us to a spot where a stack of mangel wurzels stood at the roadside.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Rohmer, Sax

The milk of cows fed on distillery wash, turnip, and mangel tops, coarse herbage, and other kinds of inferior food, is always of inferior quality.

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 can conjugate the modern verb "to wangle," And, if required, translate it into Greek; I can even tell a wurzel from a mangel; But I cannot tell a bubble from a squeak.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 by Various

Strange, perhaps Oliver Cromwell is now a mangel wurzel, and poor King Charles the First an apple tree!

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)