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Tuyere   Listen
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Tuyere  n.  (Corruptly written also tweer, and twier)  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.
Tuyere arch, the embrasure, in the wall of a blast furnace through which the tuyère enters.






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"Tuyere" Quotes from Famous Books



... front part of each cadinhe there is a rectangular aperture that gives access to the bottom of the crucible and facilitates the removal of the bloom therefrom. At the back part there is a small aperture for the introduction of the tuyere, and which permits, besides, of the nozzle of the latter being easily got at so as to see whether the blast ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 • Various



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