mangel

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It is smaller than the mangel wurzel, and more compact, and appears in its texture to be more like the Swedish turnip.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

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 White Beet is a congener of the mangel.

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

There are big coarse members of the beet and cabbage families called the mangel wurzel and ruta baga.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

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