Meaning of dozzle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. a paste flower on top of a pie cover.
3. the straw ornament on top of a haystack.
4. 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

Examples

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

“The method of preventing the formation of shrinkage cavity within bottom cast ingots which consists introducing the metal into the mould through a dozzle and a plate having a plurality of inclined conduits, whereby the incoming metal is directed against the walls of the dozzle, this heating said walls to incandescence, then reversing the mould, said dozzle after the mould is reversed causing the metal in contact therewith to feed downwards into any shrinkage cavity within the ingot.”

“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.”

“They also adopted the dozzle, invented by R. F. Mushet in 1861, to eliminate piping in the steel ingots.”

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