tew-iron
(ˈtjuːˌaɪən)
Also 6 tewe ireon, 7 teu iyron, 8 dial. tuiron, tuarn, 9 Sc. tö-airn.
[Represents F. tuyère, through the form tewyre, yre being taken as the dial. yre, ire, iron: see tuyere.]
See quots. 1825, 1888, and cf. tewel 3.
| 1570 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 329, I do gyue vnto John Dycheborne a pair of bellowis w{supt}{suph}a tewe Ireon. c 1670 in Beveridge Culross & Tulliallan xxi. (1885) II. 166 To be discharged of their worke by stryking out of thair teu iyron, and thair other workloums. c 1700 Kennett (MS. Lansd. 1033, lf. 406), Four stones or walls, that next the bellows is called the Tuarn or Tuiron wall. 1825 Jamieson, To-airn (o pron. as Gr. υ), a piece of iron, with a perforation so wide as to admit the pipe of the smith's bellows, built into the wall of his forge, to preserve the pipe from being consumed by the fire. 1840 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 42/1, 5 inches of the end nearest the tew iron were burnt completely away. 1888 Elworthy W. Som. Wordbk., Tew-iron (tùe·uy·ur), the nozzle of a smith's bellows, or of a smelting furnace... Tew-irons are regular articles of iron⁓mongery. |