crozzle

crozzle noun: a brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.

Noun

crozzle (countable and uncountable, plural crozzles)

A brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
- Crozzles, burrs and clinkers are bricks which have partly lost their shape through overheating.1914, Alfred Broadhead Searle, Cement, Concrete and Bricks, page 377
- Excessive heating in the kiln may produce misshapen bricks known as crozzles.1938, William Barr McKay, McKay's Building Construction
Hardened slag from a cementation furnace.
- 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.1991, Joan Day, The Industrial revolution in metals, page 272
- 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...2012, Margaret Drabble, The Peppered Moth
A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
- 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.1998, J. G. Rees, Geology of the country around Stoke-on-Trent, page 17

crozzle (third-person singular simple present crozzles, present participle crozzling, simple past and past participle crozzled)

To shrink or shrivel from exposure to heat.
- Gaston de Mowbray ground his hair in powder, and tore his teeth out in handfuls; his breath gushed forth with that icy coldness as to crozzle up the table before which he sat into a cinder; he paces the room to such an extent, that the past hung in penny cakes all over the apartment.1865, “The Terrible Mistake”, in Dollar Monthly Magazine, page 333
- When undiluted all these oils burn badly causing the wick to char, or, as it is technically described, to "crozzle," which renders constant attention necessary if a good dlight is to be maintained.1911, Lucius Trant O'Shea, Elementary Chemistry for Coal-mining Students

When a brick is roasted, the duration of heating should be proper and even to avoid place brick or crozzle.2011, Haimei Zhang, Building Materials in Civil Engineering, page 172:
The high temperature tends to cause the material to crozzle, which makes it difficult to work in a kiln.1929, Fred Clements, Blast Furnace Practice, volume 1, page 384:

Noun
plural	crozzles
Verb
third-person singular present	crozzles
present participle	crozzling
past participle	crozzled
past	crozzled

What does crozzle mean?: Crozzle means a brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
How do you use crozzle in a sentence?: When a brick is roasted, the duration of heating should be proper and even to avoid place brick or crozzle.
What part of speech is crozzle?: Crozzle can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of crozzle?: The plural of crozzle is crozzles.

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