Cullet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Scrap glass which is melted down for reuse.
  • n. A small central plane in the back of a cut gem.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Broken glass for remelting.
  • n. A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See collet, 3 (b).
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In glass manufacturing, refuse and broken glass, especially crown-glass, collected for remelting.
  • n. Same as culet, 2.
    • Word Usage
    "Eventually, the amount of CRT "cullet" - the crushed remains of trashed cathode ray tubes that are recycled - will outstrip demand, and the toxic screens will end up in landfills, explained Jeremy Gregory, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of a new paper on CRT recycling."
    Variant
    collet   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    gullet    mullet   
     
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