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Glassmaker's mixture
Answer for the clue "Glassmaker's mixture ", 4 letters:
frit
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frit \Frit\ (fr[i^]t), n. [F. fritte, fr. frit fried, p. p. of frire to fry. See Far , v. t.] (Glass Making) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A fused mixture of materials used to make glass vb. 1 To add #Noun to a glass or ceramic mixture 2 To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. Etymology 2 (context UK dialect Lincolnshire English) frightened
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"material for glass-making," 1660s, from Italian fritta , noun use of fem. past participle of friggere "to fry," from Latin frigere "to roast, poach, fry" (see fry (v.)).
Usage examples of frit.
There are four furnaces the size of three oxcarts in length, a fritting furnace, a melting furnace for working the glass, an annealing furnace for cooling, and a furnace for spreading the glass sheets.
He called the Metro police and was referred to a Detective Frits, who noted the room number.
Crane, perched in a swiveling office chair across from Frits, wished he had worn a jacket.
Dizzy with nausea, he wondered if it was dying, and what Lieutenant Frits would have to say to him about this.
Then there was a shadowy frit of movement among the holes of the standing hardwood, and Sean laid his right hand on the pistol grip of the AKM rifle and raised it until the butt stock touched his cheek.