Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A funnel.
- n. A container for pouring molten metal into a mold, having holes in the bottom to prevent splashing.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From tun + dish. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is called a tundish in Lower Drumcondra, said Stephen, laughing, where they speak the best English. —”
“-- Is that called a tundish in Ireland? asked the dean.”
“-- It is called a tundish in Lower Drumcondra, said Stephen, laughing, where they speak the best English.”
“It is called a tundish in Lower Drumcondra, said Stephen, laughing, where they speak the best English.”
“Is that called a tundish in Ireland? asked the dean.”
“The clergyman was just going to knock when he heard a clinking noise, and turning saw through the open door of a black shed just behind him an elderly woman in a black lace cap stooping among reddish big cans, pouring a very bright liquid into a tundish.”
“The woman put down her can, took the tundish and laid it on a shelf, then rose with a tin bottle.”
“I do," and Kasturi came forward, holding out the flask and the little tundish with which he carefully added the lethal dust to Zainal's innocuous-looking device.”
“A large tundish is very convenient, and a spare plug might be taken; but a traveller, with a little painstaking, could soon cut a plug with his own knife, sufficiently well made to allow of its being Firmly screwed in, and of retaining the water, if it had a bit of rag wrapped round it.”
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
“Very useful for creating objects that were not in any catalogue like steam traps, flow meters, hose couplings, tundish, basket strainers etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tundish’.
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A Garnish of Pewter
A list of pewter items and wares gleaned from the literature, or found listed for sale in antique catalogs - from spoons to stills and chamber pots to church cups. A synonym for the larger, heavier...
teapot, porringer, flagon, wine funnel, pepper shaker, broth bowl, basin, candlesticks, tankard, beaker, measure, chalice and 155 more...
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Words ending with sh
wash, zanyish, youngish, yokelish, yellowish, wormish, woosh, womanish, wolfish, wispish, wish, winish and 42 more...
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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