tuyere

Meaning

Noun

• 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

Related

Similar words

• tue-iron
• twyer
• twire-pipe

Origin

• From French tuyère, from Middle French tuyere, from Old French toiere ("pipe-hole"), from tuyau, tueil, tudel, from Frankish *þeutā, from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ ("pipe, channel, flow"), from *þeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu-. Cognate with Old Saxon theuta ("pipe, water-channel"), Old High German watardioza ("water-opening"), Old English þēote ("pipe, channel"), Icelandic þjótandi ("the name of an artery"), Icelandic þjóta ("to rush, whistle").