| mantlepiece | |
noun | |
| shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece" [syn: mantel] |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |