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mantletree

mantletree is the alternative spelling of mantle-tree.

Meaning of mantle-tree

Noun

mantle-tree (plural mantle-trees)

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

Forms of mantletree

pluralmantletrees

Questions about mantletree

What is mantletree the alternative spelling of?
Mantletree is the alternative spelling of mantle-tree.

Words near mantletree in the dictionary

  1. mantleslug
  2. mantleslugs
  3. mantlest
  4. mantlet
  5. mantleth
  6. mantletree
  7. mantletrees
  8. mantlets
  9. mantling
  10. mantlings
  11. manto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mantletree (page history and authors); mantle-tree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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