fascet

English

Noun

fascet (plural fascets)

1. (glassmaking) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace.
2. (glassmaking) An iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles to carry them to the furnace.

Synonyms

• (rod for carrying bottles to furnace): pontee, punty

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fascet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• facest, facets