Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
mangold .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word mangolds.
Examples
-
Draper and Deane; for Will-of-the-Wisp and Barny-the-Bark two mangolds noble to sweeden their bitters; for Oliver Bound a way in his frey; for Seumas, thought little, a crown he feels big;
Finnegans Wake 2006
-
If so be you had just come from trimming swedes or mangolds — joking with the rough work-folk and all that — I could have stood it.
The Woodlanders 2006
-
Potatoes were a new thing, nothing mystic, nothing religious; women and children could plant them — earth-apples that came from foreign parts, like coffee; fine rich food, but much like swedes and mangolds.
-
It had been ploughed and planted with mangolds and made heavy going, but I urged him into a canter, hearing behind me the screech of brakes forcefully applied.
Dead Cert Francis, Dick 1962
-
On such newly broken-up ground I saw numerous potato ridges, the large area of turnips and mangolds already spoken of, grasses and rape for sheep-feed.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
-
This season he has taken out potatoes from eight acres at the rate of 20l. per acre, and the triumph of his method has been equally great in other crops -- to wit, oats, mangolds, and turnips.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
-
Turnips and mangolds are growing in great forty-acre squares.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
-
This honest fellow confessed that digging potatoes and pulling mangolds were not his regular occupations, but that he had come "for the fun of the thing," and to show them there were still
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
-
The notion of growing turnips and mangolds in a country made for root crops was at first not well received.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
-
Fairly large potato-fields occur at short intervals, and mangolds and turnips are grown for feeding stock.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.