dozzle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim the tobacco left at the bottom of a pipe and put on the top of the next fill: dottle; in a general sense, a plug or a cap to top something off.

   “1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al. Neebody can smoke twist without a dozzle.”

2. isim a paste flower on top of a pie cover.
3. isim the straw ornament on top of a haystack.
4. isim A device, originally a heated sleave of fire clay, variously used to introduce molten metal to counter the formation of hollows in metal castings as they shrink while the mould cools. Now commonly called hot top or feeder head

   “When the metal has risen to within, say, 3 inches of the top of the mold, a “dozzle," which has been previously heated in one of the holes, is quickly dropped on top of the metal in the mold, and held in position whilst the few pounds of metal remaining in the crucible are poured through its center.”

5. fiil To stupify; to render dull or insensible.

   “I fetched him a topper as he rushed at me. I dipped and dived under his hind legs, threw him a summersault upon his back, and before he could recover from his surprise, I dealt him such a blow on the nape of his neck, that 'dozzled' him at once.”

6. fiil To use a dozzle in order to prevent shrinkage when casting in a mold.

   “This point has long been recognised in Sheffield in the manufacture of special steels, both for small and large ingots of crucible cast steel, in which the uppor or top portion is provided with a fireclay top or "dozzler”; in other words , the ingot is “dozzled.””