mantle

a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

United States baseball player (1931-1997)

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece

(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

the cloak as a symbol of authority

place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders

anything that covers

there was a blanket of snow

the layer of the earth between the crust and the core

cover like a mantle

The ivy mantles the building

spread over a surface, like a mantle