trompe

[tromp]

noun

Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.

Origin of trompe

Borrowed into English from French around 1820–30

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Examples from the Web for trompe

Historical Examples of trompe

Crane: take off the wings, but not the trompe in his breast.
Early English Meals and Manners
Various
Master of water, for he had converted the little cascade into a "trompe."
Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo
Mais je me trompe: le Bouddha ne prétendait jamais fonder une réligion.
Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume I (of 4)
George Grote
La poste transporte done des journaux dont le poids, si je ne me trompe, est de 900 kilogrammes.
The Development of Rates of Postage
A. D. Smith
La philosophie qui nous promet de nous rendre heureux, trompe—Philosophy, so far as she promises us happiness, deceives us.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
James Wood

British Dictionary definitions for trompe

trompe

noun

an apparatus for supplying the blast of air in a forge, consisting of a thin column down which water falls, drawing in air through side openings

Word Origin for trompe

C19: from French, literally: trumpet

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