mantle-tree

See also: mantletree

English

Noun

mantle-tree (plural mantle-trees)

(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.

Synonyms

Synonyms of mantle-tree

chambranle

mantle

Hypernyms

tree

References

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

Anagrams

manteltree

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