dozzles

Noun

dozzle (plural dozzles)

1. (chiefly North-country English dialectal) 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.
   • Neebody can smoke twist without a dozzle.1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al.
2. (chiefly North-country English dialectal) a paste flower on top of a pie cover.
3. (chiefly North-country English dialectal) 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
   • 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...1913, James Rossiter Hoyle, Arthur William Brearley, “149,153 Ingot Casting Method”, in Canadian Patent Office Record, volume 41, page 2249

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