| The story of the mannikin who is clever at spinning or weaving is widespread. |
| Quill fuses could be ignited directly, that is, without any delaying element such as the sulfur mannikin. |
| All of these fuses were ignited either by a piece of wool yarn impregnated with sulfur, called a sulfur mannikin, or some equivalent slow-burning device. |
| I look into my mind and discover I am too much of a mannikin to have any. |
| In Brussels stands the Mannikin Pis, a statue of a small boy having a wee. |
| I'm not quite the tailor's mannikin that I was in the old days at the 'Varsity. |
