tundish

English

Nineteenth-century pewter tundish for casking of wine

Schematic image of a tundish as used in continuous casting of steel:
1. Ladle
2. Tundish
3. Mold
4. Plasma torch
5. Stopper
6. Straight zone

Etymology

From tun +‎ dish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌn.dɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌndɪʃ

Noun

tundish (plural tundishes)

1. A kind of funnel used in brewing fitting into the bung-hole of a tun or cask.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, page iii. i. 431:

     For filling a bottle with a Tunne-dish.

   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, page 368:

     That? said Stephen. Is that called a funnel? Is it not a tundish?

2. A funnel used in smelting, foundry work etc.
3. A funnel used to create a siphonic break in a drainage system and/or provide visual indication of flow, usually in an overflow line.

References

• "tun-dish | tundish, n.". OED Online. December 2012. Oxford University Press.