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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F.; akin to

tuyau

a pipe; of Teutonic origin. Cf.

A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.

[Corruptly written also

tweer

, and

twier

Tuyère arch

the embrasure, in the wall of a blast furnace through which the tuyère enters.

See also: tuyère

A tuyere, being seen from inside of (an empty) blast furnace.

tuyere ‎(plural tuyeres)

A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 21:
  Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace.

fixture through which the blast is delivered into a furnace

From French tuyère, from Middle French tuyere, from Old French toiere ‎(“pipe-hole”), from tuyau, tueil, tudel ‎(“pipe”), from Frankish *thūta ‎(“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ ‎(“pipe, channel, flow”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutaną ‎(“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- ‎(“bird-cry, shriek”). Cognate with Old Saxon theuta ‎(“pipe, water-channel”), Old High German watardioza ‎(“water-opening”), Old English þēote ‎(“pipe, channel”), Dutch tuit ‎(“spout, nozzle”), Icelandic þjótandi ‎(“the name of an artery”), Icelandic þjóta ‎(“to rush, whistle”).