mangel
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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
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 Sir Harry Lauder
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
We had him from the work'us when he was seven, to chop mangel wurzel, and here he's been ever since, nigh twelve year.
From The Last Galley Impressions and Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Our grass, our turnips, our mangel, must deteriorate, We shall have no more prize cattle.
From Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
