Crossword-Solution: SPRUE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sprue | n. | Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. |
| Sprue | n. | The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross. |
| Sprue | n. | Same as Sprew. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPRUE | anagram | PEURS, PURSE, REUPS, SRUPE, SUPER, SUPRE |
We have 12 clues for the answer “SPRUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A channel through which metal or plastic is poured into a mold | 1 answer |
| CELIAC disease | 1 answer |
| Metal left over after casting | 1 answer |
| Mold part | 1 answer |
| Opening for pouring molten metal in foundaries. | 1 answer |
| Opening to a mold | 1 answer |
| vertical channel in a mould | 1 answer |
| metal casting channel | 2 answers |
| Waste metal | 2 answers |
| Waste piece from metal casting | 2 answers |
| tropical disease | 4 answers |
| dross | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPRUE (5)
The next operation is that of cutting the gate, which carries the molten metal from the sprue to the opening left by the pattern.
What is thrush or sprue? Patches looking like little white threads or flakes appear inside the cheeks.
Explain more about thrush or sprue? It is an inflammation of the mouth where small particles looking like milk curds appear on the tongue, gums and cheek.
After pushing the ramming head back and cutting sprue, if the half mould is cope, the operator seizes the lever shown just inside the 3-way cock at the right, and, drawing it forward and down, raises the outer frame of the top of machine containing the flask pins, with flask and sand thereon, away from the patterns, thus drawing them from the sand.
Prussian beer.] SPRUE, spr[=oo], _n._ in casting, one of the passages leading to the mould, also the metal which solidifies in it--_deadhead_.--_n._ SPRUE'-HOLE, ingate or pouring-hole in a mould.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1960–2000).