crozzle

Definitions

1. A brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
   countable, uncountable
2. Hardened slag from a cementation furnace.
   countable, uncountable
3. A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Crozzles, burrs and clinkers are bricks which have⟳ partly lost their shape⟳ through overheating.”

“Excessive heating in the kiln may produce⟳ misshapen bricks known as crozzles.”

“When a brick is roasted, the duration of heating should be proper and even to avoid⟳ place⟳ brick or crozzle.”

“The furnace was again entered, and the crust to the chests broken down; it had partially vitrified and had absorbed iron⟳ oxide and was removed in black, craggy pieces, often referred to as 'crozzle' - still sometimes to be found as a capping to walls in the vicinity of the old furnaces.”

“With or without her knowledge, with or without her consent, with or without her effort, she would sail⟳ onwards, away from Breaseborough, away from the smoke⟳ and the grime and the slag and the crozzle, away from stifling Dora, away from the hot fevered hours of study⟳, away from the condescension of Gertrude Wadsworth and the rationed contempt of Miss⟳ Strachey, away from that snub about Mary Anning and the fossil bones.”

“The topping of stone walls all around the Sheffield area, which looks like⟳ large, crude, black lumps of Aero chocolate, is in fact furnace slag mostly from cementation furnaces. It has its own⟳ dialect name⟳ – crozzle.”

“Between the ammonoid bands are three horizons of highly sheared mudstone resembling the 'crozzle' beds described by Cope (1946) at a similar stratigraphical level west of Buxton, and known also in Lancashire.”

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