Cullet Definition

kŭlĭt
noun
Scraps of waste glass that can be remelted.
Webster's New World

A small central plane in the back of a cut gem.

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Other Word Forms of Cullet

Noun

Singular:
cullet
Plural:
cullets

Origin of Cullet

  • 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 kwel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Variant of collet.

    From Wiktionary

Cullet Sentence Examples

  • It is then mixed with the glass mixture and broken glass (" cullet "), and replaced in the J a 6 FIG.

  • They can be traced by cullet heaps and broken-down furnaces, and by their names, often mutilated, recorded in parish registers.

  • In the past this has lead to a surplus of green cullet.

  • Color imbalance The main barrier to recycling glass is the shortage of clear cullet collected in the UK.

  • The glass is then sold to near by re processors to be turned into glass cullet that is used to make new glass bottles.

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Words Starting With

CCUCUL

Words Ending With

TETLET

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With C6 Letter Words Ending With T