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cul⋅let

  [kuhl-it]
–noun
broken or waste glass suitable for remelting.
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Origin:
1810–20; var. of collet < It colletto glass blower's term, lit., little neck. See col, -et
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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.]
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