tuyere

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A tuyere, seen from inside an empty blast furnace.

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From French tuyère, from Middle French tuyere, from Old French toiere (“pipe-hole”), from tuyau, tueil, tudel (“pipe”), from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Cognate with Old Saxon theuta (“pipe, water-channel”), Old High German watardioza (“water-opening”), Old English þēote (“pipe, channel”), Icelandic þjótandi (“the name of an artery”), Icelandic þjóta (“to rush, whistle”).

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tuyere (plural tuyeres)

  1. A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge
    • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 21:
      Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace.

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  1. ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
  2. ^ “tuyere”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  3. ^ “tuyere”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  4. ^ “tuyere”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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