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Tuyere

//twiːˈ(j)ɛə// noun

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Noun

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
"Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace."

Etymology

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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