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 Charles Rumford Walker

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 Charles Rumford Walker

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 Joshua Rose

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

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

If the cinder begins to settle into the tuyère, your furnace is cold.

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

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

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane

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 Philip W. Bishop