Usually means: Container for refining precious metals.
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  1. cupel: Merriam-Webster
  2. cupel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cupel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cupel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cupel: Vocabulary.com
  6. cupel: Wordnik
  7. cupel: Wiktionary
  8. cupel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cupel: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cupel, cupel: Dictionary.com
  11. Cupel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cupel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cupel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. cupel: Rhymezone
  15. Cupel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cupel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. cupel: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cupel: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. cupel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cupel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cupel)

▸ noun:  A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
▸ verb:  To refine or assay using a cupel.

Similar:
bone-ash cup, refractory pot, puncheon, cuvette, aludel, capsule, piña, piercel, picker, ladle, more...

Opposite:
ingot, bullion, bar

Phrases:
cupel dust, more...

Adjectives:
hot, ash, porous, small, fresh, good, same, inverted, large, clean, shallow

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Similar:
bone-ash cup, refractory pot, puncheon, cuvette, aludel, capsule, piña, piercel, picker, ladle, more...

Opposite:
ingot, bullion, bar

Phrases:
cupel dust, more...

Adjectives:
hot, ash, porous, small, fresh, good, same, inverted, large, clean, shallow



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