mantel
/ˈmæn.təl/ verb C2- To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.
He/she/it mantels · Past manteled · Past participle manteled · -ing form manteling
Verb forms
- Base form
- mantel
- He/she/it
- mantels
- Past
- manteled
- Past participle
- manteled
- -ing form
- manteling
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Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures, over the mantel-piece.
Won’t you let me carry you back to Kansas, and stand you on Aunt Em’s mantel?
I put down the candle and jumped for a hammer that I’d left on the mantel.
If a home is happy it cannot fit too close—let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between.
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