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tundish en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtʌn.dɪʃ/

Etymology

From tun + dish.

Meanings

1. A kind of funnel used in brewing fitting into the bung-hole of a tun or cask.
   • That? said Stephen. Is that called a funnel? Is it not a tundish? 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, page 368:
   • For filling a bottle with a Tunne-dish. 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, page iii. i. 431:
2. A funnel used in smelting, foundry work etc.
3. A funnel used to create a siphonic break in a drainage system and/or provide visual indication of flow, usually in an overflow line.

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