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CUPEL
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Irregular inflected forms: cupelled , cupelling
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
Synonyms:
bone-ash cup; cupel; refractory pot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cupel" is a kind of...):
vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))
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