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cul⋅let

[kuhl-it]
–noun
broken or waste glass suitable for remelting.

Origin:
1810–20; var. of collet < It colletto glass blower's term, lit., little neck. See col, -et
cul·let   (kŭl'ĭt)   
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

Cul"let\ (k[u^]l"l[e^]t), n. [From Cull, v. t. ] Broken glass for remelting.

Cullet

Cul"let\, n. [A dim. from F. cul back.] A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b) .
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