Crozzle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Crozzle is a noun meaning A brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
Meaning
A brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
More Meanings
- Hardened slag from a cementation furnace.
- A form of non-carbonaceous shale found between coal deposits.
- To shrink or shrivel from exposure to heat.
Example Sentences
Excessive heating in the kiln may produce misshapen bricks known as crozzles.
Crozzles, burrs and clinkers are bricks which have partly lost their shape through overheating.
When a brick is roasted, the duration of heating should be proper and even to avoid place brick or crozzle.
Between the ammonoid bands are three horizons of highly sheared mudstone resembling the 'crozzle' beds described by Cope (1946) at a similar stratigraphical level west of Buxton, and known also in Lancashire.
Word Forms
- crozzles
- crozzling
- crozzled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clinker, cracklin, frazzle, crock, clamp, toe-crushing.
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