Wiktionary
n. 1 The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin. 2 A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed.
Wikipedia
Mangel or Mangels may refer to:
Mangel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ernst Michael Mangel (1800–1887), Hungarian musician and composer
- Marcel Mangel, aka Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), French mime
- Laurent Mangel (born 1981), French racing cyclist
Fictional characters:
- Kerry Bishop Mangel, wife of Joe Mangel, mother of Sky Mangel in the soap opera Neighbours
- Kerry Breanna Mangel, Kerry Mangel, Jr., daughter of Sky Mangel in the soap opera Neighbours
- Joe Mangel, son of Len and Nell Mangel in the soap opera Neighbours
- Nell Mangel, Eleanor "Nell" Worthington, Nell Worthington, mother of Joe Mangel in the soap opera Neighbours
- Sky Mangel, stepdaughter of Joe Mangel in the soap opera Neighbours
- Toby Mangel, son of Joe Mangel in the soap opera Neighbours
Usage examples of "mangel".
A barley crop seeded with clover would be better, especially if the mangels were heavily manured.
Twenty paces brought us to a spot where a stack of mangel wurzels stood at the roadside.
We had dry weather in the spring, and the mangel seed on the dry, clayey land did not come up as well as on the cooler and moister bottom-land.
I should want 200 tons of this for the mangels and turnips, and the 300 tons I should want to top-dress 20 acres of grass land intended for corn and potatoes the next year.
In fact, mangels make good manure, and good manure makes good mangels.
Syracuse, on my mangels, at the rate of about six bushels per acre, applied broadcast in two applications.
The fine I use for dusting the mangels after they have been singled out, and the lumps, if any, are used to warm up the red peppers.
I use all the wood ashes I can get, on my mangels as a duster, and consider their value greater than the burners do who sell them to me for 15 cts.
There is one thing in relation to my mangels of 1876 which has escaped the Deacon.
Martin, Andy Mangels, Jeff Mariotte, Margaret Wander Bonanno, and especially the ones on either side of me, David R.