| 单词 | mundle | 
| 释义 | mundlen. Now English regional (chiefly midlands), Welsh English, and Newfoundland.   A stick or similar wooden utensil (often with one flat end) used for stirring. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > 			[noun]		 > stirring apparatus potstickc1425 mundlec1560 pote1683 poler1688 oar1735 rouser1765 spindle1797 c1560    in  H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age 		(1886)	 152  				In the Kytchyn..a great munde. 1688    R. Holme Acad. Armory  iii. xx. 247/1  				The Third, is called a Padle or Mundle, it is like an old spade without its Iron shooe, all wood. 1743    W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman 		(Dublin ed.)	 May viii. 103  				At the End of that Time, churn away with the Mundle-stick. 1882    G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word)  				The mundle is in constant requisition for stirring the cream. 1887    T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire  				Mundle, A stick with a flat and broad piece of wood at the end, used for stirring whey, &c. 1896    Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 9 23  				Mundel, A stick with a flat end for stirring meal when boiling for porridge. a1903    E. French in  Eng. Dial. Dict. 		(1903)	 IV. 204/2  				[Cheshire] Mundle, the masher used for mashing potatoes. 1953    A. Jobson Househ. & Country Crafts v. 54  				To preserve the cream,..it was necessary to stir it occasionally with flat wooden sticks known as cream-pot stirrers, ladles, or mungles in Hereford, and saltpetre was added. 1969    E. H. Pinto Treen 103  				Cream stirrers... These stirrers, sometimes known as mundles in the Midlands and in Cheshire and Lancashire, were individually made. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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