tuyere

Alternative forms

• tuyère

Etymology

From French tuyère, from Middle French tuyere, from Old French toiere (“pipe-hole”), from tuyau, tueil, tudel (“pipe”), from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Cognate with Old Saxon theuta (“pipe, water-channel”), Old High German watardioza (“water-opening”), Old English þēote (“pipe, channel”), Dutch tuit (“spout, nozzle”), Icelandic þjótandi (“the name of an artery”), Icelandic þjóta (“to rush, whistle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twiˈjɛɹ/, /twiˈjɪɹ/, /tuˈjɛɹ/
• Hyphenation: tu‧yere

Noun

tuyere (plural tuyeres)

1. A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 21:

     Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace.