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MUD GUN

Specialty Definition: MUD GUN

DomainDefinition

Mining

An apparatus for pushing a clay stopper into the taphole of a blast furnace. A steam cylinder operates a plunger inside a steel tube into which clay is fed from a hopper tube as the plunger is worked back and forth, and is thus forced into the taphole at the end of a cast.See also:clay gun. (references)

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

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Crosswords: MUD GUN

Specialty definitions using "MUD GUN": BLAST-FURNACE KEEPER. (references)

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Modern Translation: MUD GUN

Language Translations for "MUD GUN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

genbrugelig slamkanon (retrievable mud gun). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

meermalig spoelingkanon (retrievable mud gun). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

siirrettävä mutaruisku (retrievable mud gun). (various references)

   

French

  

retrievable mud gun (retrievable mud gun). (various references)

   

German

  

Rückholspülschlammlanze (retrievable mud gun), Rückholbohrschlammlanze (retrievable mud gun). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

udmay ungay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

återställbar spolkanon för borrslam (retrievable mud gun). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MUD GUN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-m-n-u-u"

-2 letters: dung.

-3 letters: dug, dun, gnu, gum, gun, mud, mug, mun.

-4 letters: mu, nu, um, un.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-m-n-u-u"
 

+2 letters: mundungo.

 

+3 letters: mundungos, mundungus.

 

+4 letters: curmudgeon.

 

+5 letters: curmudgeons, dumfounding, mundunguses.

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

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