Definitions for sprue

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Spelling: [sproo]
IPA: /spru/

Sprue is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in sprue (eprsu).

Definitions for sprue

noun

  1. Metallurgy. an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold. the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
  2. Metalworking. a channel in a forging die permitting the die to clear that part of the rough piece not being forged.
  3. a chronic disease, occurring chiefly in the tropics, resulting from malabsorption of nutrients from the small intestine and characterized by diarrhea, ulceration of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, and a smooth, shining tongue; psilosis.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cut the sprues from (a casting).

Origin of sprue

First recorded in 1820-30; origin uncertain

Examples for sprue

Some tops of sprue grass may be boiled in a little stock till tender, and rubbed through a tamis.

There is a strange story told in Shanghai about a certain remedy for a horrible disease called "sprue."

Word Value for sprue
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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