TROMPE


Meaning of TROMPE in English

noun

also tromp ˈträmp

( -s )

Etymology: French trompe, literally, trumpet, from Old French — more at trump

: an apparatus (as for a Catalan forge) in which air is sucked through sloping holes in the upper end of a large vertical wooden tube and led to a furnace by a stream of falling water that is discharged below

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