Originally, all steelmaking furnaces had a tapping spout closed with refractory that washed out when the furnace was tilted, but often modern furnaces have an eccentric bottom tap-hole EBT to reduce inclusion of nitrogen and slag in the liquid steel. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But time passed, and it grew later and later, and still the man did not come back, and at last the Governor grew so weary of keeping his finger in the tap-hole that he took it out. ❋ Unknown (2003)
So the man said that if he would do that he would go, but he begged the Governor to be very careful to put his finger into the tap-hole the moment he took his out. ❋ Unknown (2003)
'I am not sure that I can do it, 'said the man,' for I have to go to a wedding with this cask of mead which I have been to fetch, and the tap has fallen out on the way, so now I have to keep my finger in the tap-hole as I drive. ' ❋ Unknown (1890)
This is a 'old cask, and the wood's rotted away about the tap-hole. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Had it been allowed to continue running, until it stopped of itself -- in other words, had the surface of the water sunk to the level of the tap-hole -- then would there have been but little left, scarce enough to have lasted me for a week. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
In my search for the bung I had not forgotten the vent or tap-hole. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
I understood enough of hydraulics to know that water will rise to its own level if guided by a pipe or tube; I knew, therefore, that if I had only possessed a piece of hose, I could have attached it to the tap-hole, and thus discovered how high the water stood in the cask. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
After it is scummed once or twice, you may put in your herbs, and spice grosly beaten, one half loose; the other in a bag, which afterwards may be fastned with a string to the tap-hole, as Pepper, Cloves, ❋ Kenelm Digby (1634)
Siemens also supplied casthouse equipment including all hydraulic tap-hole drills and clay guns. ❋ Unknown (2009)
‘for I have to go to a wedding with this cask of mead which I have been to fetch, and the tap has fallen out on the way, so now I have to keep my finger in the tap-hole as I drive.’ ❋ Unknown (2003)
So the Master Thief immediately got hold of an old worn-out mare, and set himself to work to make a collar for it of green withies and branches of broom; bought a shabby old cart and a great cask, and then he told a poor old beggar woman that he would give her ten dollars if she would get into the cask and keep her mouth wide-open beneath the tap-hole, into which he was going to stick his finger. ❋ Unknown (2003)
So the Master Thief immediately got hold of an old worn-out mare, and set himself to work to make a collar for it of green withies and branches of broom; bought a shabby old cart and a great cask, and then he told a poor old beggar woman that he would give her ten dollars if she would get into the cask and keep her mouth wide - open beneath the tap-hole, into which he was going to stick his finger. ❋ Unknown (1890)
This is a’ old cask, and the wood’s rotted away about the tap-hole. ❋ Unknown (2006)
