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FLOSS HOLE

Definition: FLOSS HOLE

FLOSS HOLE

1. (a) A hole at the back of a puddling furnace, at which the slags pass out. (b) The tap hole of a melting furnace. --Knight.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Specialty Definition: FLOSS HOLE

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. A small door provided at the bottom of a flue or chimney for ash removal. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FLOSS HOLE

Language Translations for "FLOSS HOLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

slaggehul (cinder hole). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

asuitlaat (cinder hole). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kuonan laskuaukko (cinder hole). (various references)

   

French

  

trou de laitier. (various references)

   

German

  

Schlackenloch (cinder hole). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οπίσθια οπή χυτηρίου (cinder hole). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ossflay olehay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

orifício de descarga de escória (cinder hole). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

piquera de la escoria (cinder hole), bigotera (bow compass), agujero para desescoriar (cinder hole). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slaggöppning (cinder hole). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cüruf deliği (floss). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FLOSS HOLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-h-l-l-o-o-s-s"

-1 letter: hoofless.

-2 letters: holloes.

-3 letters: folles, hellos, hollos, hosels, looses, losels, shells, sheols, shools.

-4 letters: fells, flesh, floes, floss, fools, fosse, hello, hells, helos, holes, hollo, hoofs, hosel, hoses, loess, loofs, loose, losel, loses, oleos, selfs, sells, shelf, shell, sheol, shoes, shool, shoos, sloes, slosh, soles, solos.

-5 letters: ells, fehs, fell, fess, floe, foes, fool, foss.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-h-l-l-o-o-s-s"
 

+4 letters: followerships, schoolfellows.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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