debiteuse Glass-making.
(dɛbɪˈtɜːz, -ˈtjuːz)
[a. F. débiteuse, fem. of débiteur one who spreads (gossip), f. débiter to cut up, yield, MF. débiter to cut wood, sell retail, f. de- de- I + bitte post on ship for fastening cables, f. ON. biti (see bitt).]
An open, oblong, trough-like object made of refractory material and having a slit along the bottom, which in the Fourcault method of making sheet glass floats on the surface of the molten glass.
| 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 290/1 In drawing a sheet of glass a bait consisting of a narrow flat woven iron sheet of a length equal to the slit in the débiteuse is lowered within the lips forming the slit. 1948 W. C. Scoville Revolution in Glassmaking 330 His ‘debiteuse’..rested in a shallow tub of glass connecting with the melting furnace. 1969 R. Persson Flat Glass Technol. ii. 9 The glass sheet is drawn vertically from a slot in a refractory floater or debiteuse, which floats on the glass in the drawing chamber. |