tundish

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Nineteenth-century pewter tundish for casking of wine
Schematic image of a tundish as used in continuous casting of steel:
1. Ladle
2. Tundish
3. Mold
4. Plasma torch
5. Stopper
6. Straight zone

Etymology

From tun +‎ dish.

Pronunciation

Noun

tundish (plural tundishes)

  1. A kind of funnel used in brewing fitting into the bung-hole of a tun or cask.
    • 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, page iii. i. 431:
      For filling a bottle with a Tunne-dish.
    • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, page 368:
      That? said Stephen. Is that called a funnel? Is it not a tundish?
  2. A funnel used in smelting, foundry work etc.
  3. A funnel used to create a siphonic break in a drainage system and/or provide visual indication of flow, usually in an overflow line.

References

  • "tun-dish | tundish, n.". OED Online. December 2012. Oxford University Press.
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