Trompe
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.
noun
1.
an apparatus for supplying the blast of air in a forge, consisting of a thin column down which water falls, drawing in air through side openings
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