Crossword-Solution: CULLET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Cullet | v. t. | Broken glass for remelting. |
| Cullet | n. | A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b). |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CULLET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BROKEN glass | 1 answer |
| GLASS added to new material in glass-making | 1 answer |
| Glass refuse | 1 answer |
| REFUSE glass added to new material in glass-making | 1 answer |
| Scraps of waste glass. | 1 answer |
| refuse glass | 1 answer |
| GLASS-making material | 4 answers |
| Glass | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CULLET (5)
Manufacture.--Pure white sand, Si02, is mixed with CaCO3 and Na2CO3, some old glass - cullet - is added, and the mixture is fused in fire-clay crucibles.
This broken glass is called "cullet," and is carefully swept into piles and kept in bins for use in the furnaces.
The sand, coloring matter, and cullet, when mixed in the proper proportions, form what is called in bottle-makers' talk the "batch" or "dope." This batch is put into a specially constructed furnace--a brick box about thirty feet long by fifteen wide, and seven feet high at the crown of the arched roof.
The sand, coloring matter and cullet are in separate bins; an electrical conveyor takes enough of each for a batch to a mixing machine; from there the batch goes on a long belt to the furnace.
Him Miselle assailed with questions, and learned that the trough contained 1400 pounds sand, 350 " ash, 100 " soda, 800 " red-lead, and about 100 " cullet.[25] This was to be a fine quality of flint-glass, and to it might be added coloring-matter of any desired tint; but in the choice and proportion of this lay one of the principal secrets of the art.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–1973).