Mantle
Common American surname
Mantle as a proper noun most often refers to Mickey Mantle, the Hall of Fame center fielder who played for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968.
His name appears in discussions of baseball greatness: He hit like Mantle in his prime. (Lowercase mantle is a cloak or covering.)
baseball
New York baseball franchise
- centerfieldMiddle outfield position
- sluggerPowerful baseball batter
- switch-hitterBats left and right
- legendUnverified traditional tale
Oklahoma · Commerce · Cooperstown · pinstripes · seven · championships
Yankees
New York baseball franchise
- centerfieldMiddle outfield position
- sluggerPowerful baseball batter
- switch-hitterBats left and right
legend · Oklahoma · Commerce · Cooperstown · pinstripes · seven · championships
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role/responsibility
Mantleabdication
Formal surrender of power
renunciation · shirking · abandonment · rejection · relinquishment
geological structure
Mantlecrust
Hard outer layer
core · surface · atmosphere · outer core · lithosphere
- pick up the mantleAssume a predecessor's role
- passed the mantleTransferred role to successor
- took up the mantleAssumed another's role
- passing the mantleTransferring leadership to another
- assumes the mantleTakes on leadership responsibility
- picked up the mantleAssumed another's role