ventage
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ventage (countable and uncountable, plural ventages)
- (countable) A puff of air coming through a hole in a wind instrument.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Govern these ventages with
your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your
mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
- Venting (the act by which something is vented)
- 1893, Robert Burton Buckley, Irrigation Works in India and Egypt, page 164:
- In some Madras examples which have been successful, the ventage in the under-sluices is about the same as that in the head-sluices above them.
- 1943, The intertype:
- The most important factor in casting solid, close-grained slugs suitable for withstanding pressure in direct printing is efficient ventage of air from the mold each time a slug is cast.