Definition of Tuiere
||Tu`yère" (?), n. [F.; akin to
tuyau a pipe; of Teutonic origin. Cf. Tweer, Tewel.]
A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered
to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.
[Corruptly written also tweer, and twier.]
Tuyère arch, the embrasure, in the wall of
a blast furnace through which the tuyère enters.
||Tu`yère" (?), n. [F.; akin to
tuyau a pipe; of Teutonic origin. Cf. Tweer, Tewel.]
A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered
to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.
[Corruptly written also tweer, and twier.]
Tuyère arch, the embrasure, in the wall of
a blast furnace through which the tuyère enters.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.
Quotations
*1957: Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 21.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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