Sprue

Quick meaning: Sprue is a noun meaning (medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.

Meaning

(medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.

More Meanings

1. (metallurgy) A channel through which molten metal is poured into the mold during the casting process.
2. (metallurgy) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
3. To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.

Example Sentences

In the brass spruing room is what is known as a Todd water tumbler, used for brass castings.

If we are to cast a simple pattern like a small ball we have at least three methods of sprueing the wax pattern (Fig. 6).

The method adopted for sprueing the wax pattern is much more important to the success of the inlay than is generally realized.

The pattern is completed in its final contour, is then sprued, invested and burned out of the investment, and the gold alloy is cast in the same manner as when the indirect technique is utilized

Word Forms

• sprues
• sprueing
• spruing
• sprued

Synonyms for sprue

Depending on context, synonyms include downsprue.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nontropical, psilosis, syphiloid, syphilide, prunella, syphilosis.

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