mantle

Meaning

1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
2. A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
3. Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
4. The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
5. The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
7. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
9. A penstock for a water wheel.
10. The cerebral cortex.
11. The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
12. Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”)
13. A mantling.

upper garment

grow over

cover over

go red

pella

contend over

A-horizon

Earth’s mantle

mound over

mantle rock

zone of weathering

long coat

cover die

mantle of the earth

earth mantle

mentel

cape overcoat

long cloak

throwover dress

surface of the soil

mantle soil

weathered zone

weathered layer

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmæn.təl/

Inherited from Middle English

Inherited from Old English

Cognate with French

Cognate with Spanish

Cognate with Icelandic

In summary

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantil; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantēllum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum (French manteau, Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull.

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