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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: chiefly North-country English dialectal
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noun
a paste flower on top of a pie cover.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: chiefly North-country English dialectal
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noun
the straw ornament on top of a haystack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: chiefly North-country English dialectal
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noun
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
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To stupify; to render dull or insensible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To use a dozzle in order to prevent shrinkage when casting in a mold.
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History
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