1. A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
   "She draped a velvet mantle over her shoulders for the evening event";
   - cape
    
2. The cloak as a symbol of authority
   "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"
    
3. Anything that covers
   "there was a mantle of snow";
   - blanket
    
4. (geology) the layer of the Earth between the crust and the core
   "Convection currents in the mantle drive plate tectonics"
    
5. (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
   "The mantle of the oyster produces nacre, forming the pearl";
   - pallium
    
6. Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
   "Family photos were displayed on the mantle";
   - mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiece, chimneypiece
    
7. Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
   "A mantle of snow covered the landscape";
   - curtain, drape, drapery, pall

1. Spread over a surface, like a mantle
   "Snow mantled the landscape"
    
2. Cover like a mantle
   "The ivy mantles the building"

1. United States baseball player (1931-1997)
   - Mickey Mantle, Mickey Charles Mantle

Sounds like: manors, mannntle, ma

Derived forms: mantling, mantles, mantled

Type of: ballplayer, baseball player, blind, cloak, cover, covering, cuticle, diffuse, epidermis, fan out, furnishing, layer, natural covering, screen, shelf, spread, spread out, spread over, symbol

Part of: fireplace, geosphere, hearth, lithosphere, open fireplace

Encyclopedia: Mantle, Thomas