Definitions for trompes

trompes trompe

Spelling: [tromp]
IPA: /trɒmp/

Trompes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 311 anagrams from letters in trompes (emoprst).

Definitions for trompes

noun

  1. Metallurgy. a device formerly used for inducing a blast of air upon the hearth of a forge by means of a current of falling water.

Origin of trompes

Borrowed into English from French around 1820-30

Examples for trompes

La philosophie qui nous promet de nous rendre heureux, trompe—Philosophy, so far as she promises us happiness, deceives us.

Mais je me trompe: le Bouddha ne prétendait jamais fonder une réligion.

But euer thynke yt the trompe of the last daye of Iugement soundeth in your eeres / and calleth you sayenge.

La poste transporte done des journaux dont le poids, si je ne me trompe, est de 900 kilogrammes.

Crane: take off the wings, but not the trompe in his breast.

trompe, tromp, n. the apparatus by which the blast is produced in the Catalan forge.

Master of water, for he had converted the little cascade into a "trompe."

Word Value for trompes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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