Mantle (disambiguation)
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Mantle may refer to:
  • Mantle (clothing)
    Mantle (clothing)
    A mantle is a type of loose garment usually worn over indoor clothing to serve the same purpose as an overcoat...

    , a cloak-like garment worn mainly by women as fashionable outerwear
  • Mantle, part of the bird anatomy
  • Mantle (climbing)
    Mantle (climbing)
    To mantle or mantel in rock climbing is to perform a specific move, typically to get a climber up onto a ledge. The term is derived from the phrase mantel shelf and derives from the shelf above a fireplace. Imagine an old house with high cellings and an open fireplace with a shelf above it at...

    , a rock climbing move used to surmount a ledge
  • Mantle, a black and white dog coat colour, especially in Great Danes
  • Mantle (geology)
    Mantle (geology)
    The mantle is a part of a terrestrial planet or other rocky body large enough to have differentiation by density. The interior of the Earth, similar to the other terrestrial planets, is chemically divided into layers. The mantle is a highly viscous layer between the crust and the outer core....

    , a layer in the interior of Earth or another planet
  • Mantle (mollusc)
    Mantle (mollusc)
    The mantle is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and usually protrudes in the form of flaps well beyond the visceral mass itself.In many, but by no means all, species of molluscs, the epidermis of the mantle secretes...

    , a layer of tissue in molluscs which secretes the shell
  • Mantle (vesture), an Eastern Orthodox vesture worn by monastics and higher clergy
  • Gas mantle
    Gas mantle
    An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle, or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame. The name refers to its original heat source, existing gas lights, which filled the streets of Europe and North America in the late 19th century, mantle referring to the...

    , a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame
  • The Mantle
    The Mantle
    The Mantle is the second album by American metal band Agalloch. The album was released on August 13, 2002 by The End Records.Taking a more mellow tone than Agalloch's first full-length, Pale Folklore, The Mantle still contains heavy electric guitar riffs as well as acoustic guitar portions...

    , an album by Agalloch
  • Mantle Site, Wendat (Huron) Ancestral Village
    Mantle Site, Wendat (Huron) Ancestral Village
    The Mantle site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated in the Lower Great Lakes region to date....

    , in Whitchurch-Stouffville, near Toronto


As surname
  • Doreen Mantle
    Doreen Mantle
    Doreen Mantle is a South African-born British actress who is probably best known for her role as Mrs Jean Warboys in One Foot in the Grave ....

     (b. 1930), British actress
  • Mickey Mantle
    Mickey Mantle
    Mickey Charles Mantle was an American professional baseball player. Mantle is regarded by many to be the greatest switch hitter of all time, and one of the greatest players in baseball history. Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.Mantle was noted for his hitting...

     (1931–1995), American baseball player.

See also

  • Mantel (disambiguation)
    Mantel (disambiguation)
    Mantel is a town in Bavaria, Germany.Mantel may also refer to:*Fireplace mantel, a framework around a fireplace*Mantel Corporation, a fictional organization in the video game Haze.*Mantel-Cox test, statistical test...

  • Mantell (disambiguation)
  • Mantling
    Mantling
    In heraldry, mantling or lambrequin is drapery tied to the helmet above the shield. It forms a backdrop for the shield. In paper heraldry it is a depiction of the protective cloth covering worn by knights from their helmets to stave off the elements, and, secondarily, to decrease the effects of...

    , heraldry drapery that is tied to the helmet above the shield.
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