cullet
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cul·let
(kŭl′ĭt)n.
Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material.
[Probably alteration of collet, neck of glass left on the blowing iron, from French, collar, diminutive of col, neck, from Old French, from Latin collum; see kwel- in Indo-European roots.]
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cullet
(ˈkʌlɪt)n
(Ceramics) waste glass for melting down to be reused
[C17: perhaps variant of collet (literally: little neck, referring to the glass neck of newly blown bottles, etc)]
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cul•let
(ˈkʌl ɪt)n.
broken or waste glass suitable for remelting.
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Translations
cullet
n → Bruchglas nt
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