cul·let (k l  t)n. Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material. [Probably alteration of collet, neck of glass left on the blowing iron, from French, collar, diminutive of col, neck, from Old French, from Latin collum; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
cullet [ˈkʌlɪt]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) waste glass for melting down to be reused
[perhaps variant of collet (literally: little neck, referring to the glass neck of newly blown bottles, etc.)]
Translations
cullet
n → Bruchglas nt
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