tuyère
See also: tuyere
English
Noun
tuyère (plural tuyères)
- Alternative form of tuyere
French
Etymology
From Old French toiere, from tuyau (“pipe, tube, channel”), of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "gem" is not valid. See WT:LOL. origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
tuyère f (plural tuyères)
- An air vent in the masonry of a metallurgic oven
- The back chamber of a combustion engine where the gas decompresses
Related terms
Descendants
- English: tuyere
Further reading
- “tuyère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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