Definition of "mantell" []

• English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "She ware a chaine of gold, great and verie massie, and was clad in a lose kirtle of sundrie colours, and aloft therevpon she had a thicke Irish mantell: hereto in hir hand (as hir custome was) she bare a speare, to shew hirselfe the more dreadfull."
• "The patrone of the same shyppe was y'called Luke mantell."
• "Sitting vpon his bed of mats, his pillow of leather imbrodered (after their rude manner with pearle and white Beads) his attyre a faire robe of skinnes as large as an Irish mantell: at his head and feete a handsome young woman: on each side his house sat twentie of his Concubines, their heads and shoulders painted red, with a great chaine of white beads about each of their neckes."