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cullet
cul·let C0798400 (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.]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)]cul•let (ˈkʌl ɪt)
n. broken or waste glass suitable for remelting. [1810–20; variant of collet < Italian colletto literally, little neck. See col, -et] TranslationsCullet
cullet[′kəl·ət] (design engineering) collet CulletCrushed waste glass that is returned for recycling. Also, large irregular chunks of glass, produced by the slag from a glass furnace. When the glass cools, it is chipped off the sides of the furnace and later used as a catalyst, in the mixture of the new batch. |