Excess metal left at the end of the injection cylinder of a cold-chamber die casting machine, formed at the end of the plunger stroke Also called a slug
Pottery that has been fired once but not glazed Also used for the unglazed white porcelain called bisque in French and adopted for statuettes, busts and decorative objects from the middle of the eighteenth century onward
emphasis If someone has done something very stupid, rude, or selfish, you can say that they take the biscuit or that what they have done takes the biscuit, to emphasize your surprise at their behaviour
> 1) The body material of fired ceramics 2) Ceramic body that has been fired without glaze Some ceramics are fired entirely without glaze Some ceramics have areas of their form which are free of glaze, while other areas are glazed Such biscuit pieces/areas may be left unglazed, or they may be covered with a lower-firing glaze or enamel and fired for a second time
Excess of ladled metal remaining in the shot sleeve of a cold chamber die casting machine It is part of the cast shot and is removed from the die with the casting
The puck You hear it all the time on ESPN, "He put the biscuit in the basket " John Halligan, an NHL executive who does a hockey trivia column for the league's website, says that the term probably was invented by a sportswriter in the 1940s "Certain newspapers were reluctant to overuse the word puck," he said Biscuits were often called "wafers" in the old days, too