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shear-cake

shear-cake noun: a counterweighted refractory slab used as a gate or door to a small furnace or oven.

Noun

shear-cake (plural shear-cakes)

  1. A counterweighted refractory slab used as a gate or door to a small furnace or oven.

Forms of shear-cake

pluralshear-cakes

Questions about shear-cake

What does shear-cake mean?
Shear-cake means a counterweighted refractory slab used as a gate or door to a small furnace or oven.
What part of speech is shear-cake?
Shear-cake is a noun.
What is the plural of shear-cake?
The plural of shear-cake is shear-cakes.

Words near shear-cake in the dictionary

  1. shear wall
  2. shear walls
  3. shear wave
  4. shear waves
  5. shear zone
  6. shear-cake
  7. shear-cakes
  8. shear-pole
  9. shear-poles
  10. shear-thickening
  11. shear-thinning

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