mangel
Example Sentences
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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
The mangel wurzel was introduced about 1780-5 by Parkyns, and prickly comfrey in 1811.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
Although the mangel is one of the most nutritious articles of food which can be given to cattle, yet it is stated on the best authority that sheep do not thrive upon it.
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
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
Let nothing induce the growers," says Mr. Paget, in a paper on the cultivation of the mangel, "to strip the leaves from the plant before taking up the root.
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
