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1 a: a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak b: a figurative cloak symbolizing preeminence or authority <accepted the mantle of leadership>2 a: something that covers, enfolds, or envelops b
(1): a fold or lobe or pair of lobes of the body wall of a mollusk or brachiopod that in shell-bearing forms lines the shell and bears shell-secreting glands
(2): the soft external body wall that lines the test or shell of a tunicate or barnacle c: the outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth
; broadly : an insulated support or casing in which something is heated3: the upper back of a bird4: a lacy hood or sheath of some refractory material that gives light by incandescence when placed over a flame5 a: regolith b: the part of the interior of a terrestrial planet and especially the earth that lies beneath the crust and above the central core6: mantel
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