- Metallurgy.
- an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
- the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- a channel in a forging die permitting the die to clear that part of the rough piece not being forged.
- to cut the sprues from (a casting).
- a chronic disease, occurring chiefly in the tropics, resulting from malabsorption of nutrients from the small intestine and characterized by diarrhea, ulceration of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, and a smooth, shining tongue; psilosis.
- a vertical channel in a mould through which plastic or molten metal is introduced or out of which it flows when the mould is filled
- plastic or metal that solidifies in a sprue
- a chronic disease, esp of tropical climates, characterized by flatulence, diarrhoea, frothy foul-smelling stools, and emaciation
- an inferior type of asparagus
