mundlen.
/ˈmʌndl/, U.S. /ˈmənd(ə)l/, Canadian English /ˈmʌnd(ə)l/, Welsh English /ˈmənːd(ə)l/ Now English regional (chiefly midlands), Welsh English, and Newfoundland.
A stick or similar wooden utensil (often with one flat end) used for stirring.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > stirring apparatus
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mundlec1560
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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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