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Webster 1828 Edition

Mantle-tree

MAN'TLE-TREE

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Noun.
The piece of timber or stone in front of a chimney, over the fire-place, resting on the jambs.
[This word, according to Johnson,signifies the work over the fire-place, which we call a mantle-piece.]

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mantle-tree

mantle-tree

See also: mantletree

English

Noun

mantle-tree ‎(plural mantle-trees)

  1. (archaic) A beam of wood over the opening of an open fireplace, from which items were hung.
    • 1600's. Robert Herrick (1591-1674), To Larr (poem):
      No more shall I from mantle-trees hang down
      To honour thee, my little parlsey crown.

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References

  • Cowper, William, Cowper: The Didactic Poems of 1782, Clarendon Press: 1874, p. 230

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