mangel
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Strong stubbles, good beans, clover-seed, and mangel, are the specialities of the locality, and they indicate heavy land, corn-growing, and yard-feeding.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
The mangel wurzel produces a larger crop than the Swedish turnip.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett
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 George Bell
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 John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
Three-fourths of the fields were meadow or pasture, or in mangel or turnips.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
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