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cullet
[ kuhl-it ]
noun
- broken or waste glass suitable for remelting.
cullet
/ ˈkʌlɪt /
noun
- waste glass for melting down to be reused
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cullet1
C17: perhaps variant of collet (literally: little neck, referring to the glass neck of newly blown bottles, etc)
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Example Sentences
Bohemian table or plate glass is made with 63 parts of quartz; 26 of purified potashes; 11 of sifted slaked lime, and some cullet.
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This broken glass is called "cullet," and is carefully swept into piles and kept in bins for use in the furnaces.
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It is then mixed with the glass mixture and broken glass (“cullet”), and replaced in the crucibles.
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They can be traced by cullet heaps and broken-down furnaces, and by their names, often mutilated, recorded in parish registers.
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