mangel

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 P. L. Simmonds

Does it harm the mangel wurzels if their tops ore cut off once a month?

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

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

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

If you can get a cross which gives you more tonnage than a mangel and a higher nutritive content you would have something better to grow.

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

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