cullet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cullet
1810–20; variant of collet < Italian colletto glass blower's term, literally, little neck. See col, -et
Example Sentences
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“It’s getting more rare,” she said of the cullet.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022
She sourced more of these chunks, called cullet, from West Virginia, loading her Jeep and hauling hundreds of pounds of glass rocks through the mountains back to her Philadelphia studio.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022
The Port of Tilbury, London's major port, is the starting point for trains carrying up to 1,200 tonnes of raw glass cullet travelling to Cheshire, where it is turned into new bottles and containers.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021
It could be sold to glassmakers who would use it in their furnaces to make a new batch - the addition of cullet makes the melting temperature lower.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021
They can be traced by cullet heaps and broken-down furnaces, and by their names, often mutilated, recorded in parish registers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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