tuyère

American  

[twee-yair, too-, tweer, ty-yer] / twiˈjɛər, tu-, twɪər, tüˈjɛr /

Also tuyer

noun

Metallurgy.

tuyères plural

1. an opening through which the blast of air enters a blast furnace, cupola, forge, or the like, to facilitate combustion.

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tuyère British  

/ tyjɛr, ˈtwaɪə, ˈtwiːɛə, ˈtwaɪə /

noun

1. a water-cooled nozzle through which air is blown into a cupola, blast furnace, or forge

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tuyères
  plural

Etymology

Origin of tuyère

1665–75; < French, derivative of tuyau pipe < Germanic

Example Sentences

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tuyère tuyères

I grabbed a wrench to take the nut off the "bridle"—the first step in taking out a sort of outside cooler, the tuyère.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

All of these moves are fast; a tuyère goes bad every other day and men work fast like soldiers at a gun drill.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

In cases where the fire requires to be built farther out from the chimney wall than the location of the tuyère permits, it may be built out as follows:— Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

In British patent 2321 Bessemer proposed to convert his steel in crucibles, arranged in a suitable furnace and each having a vertical tuyère, through which air under pressure was forced through the molten metal.

From The Beginnings of Cheap Steel by Bishop, Philip W.

Then the tuyère comes loose with a few strokes of a pull bar.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

Bessemer Converting Vessel: a, a, a, tuyères; b, air-space; c, melted metal.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert

Soden, incidentally, knew of seven different "air-boiling" furnaces, some with four and some with eight tuyères, but he also neglected to report on the use of the metal.

From The Beginnings of Cheap Steel by Bishop, Philip W.