Mandrake

man'drak, n. A low-growing Oriental cotic plant, with a large fleshy root, often forked. metal Mandrel, man'drel, re. (Mack.) A bar of which work to be turned is fixed or to which a tool is attached, as in a lathe; the spindle carrying the center chuck of a lathe, and communicating motion to the work, and usually driven by a pulley; an arbor.