mangel

Example Sentences

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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

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

It may be observed that direct experiments at Rothamsted confirm the view, arrived at by common experience, that roots, and especially mangel, have a favourable effect on the flow of milk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

Farms are abandoned—or bought by rich men who make park lands and lawns o' the fields where the potato and the mangel wurzel, the corn and the barley, grew yesteryear.

From Between You and Me by Lauder, Harry, 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