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noun Metallurgy.

a gate having a widened opening containing a centered disk to prevent molten metal from falling in a direct vertical stream.

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These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.
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Some things never change as we wring out the old year and ring in the new one.
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The Florida GOP senator stormed out of the gate Wednesday in the highest of dudgeons.
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When Yima pressed the earth with this ring, the genius of the Earth, Aramaîti, responded to his wish and order.
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I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.
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I desired the captain would please to accept this ring in return of his civilities, which he absolutely refused.
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Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
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At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.
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