Usually means: Channel through which metal flows.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprue: Merriam-Webster
  2. sprue, sprue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sprue, sprue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sprue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sprue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sprue, sprue: Wordnik
  7. sprue: Wiktionary
  8. sprue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sprue: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sprue: Dictionary.com
  11. Sprue (disambiguation), Sprue (manufacturing), Sprue (molding), Sprue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sprue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sprue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. sprue: Rhymezone
  15. Sprue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sprue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. sprue: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sprue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sprue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. sprue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprue: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sprue: Merck Manuals
  4. Sprue: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  7. sprue: Medical dictionary
  8. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  9. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sprue, Sprue, Sprue: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See sprues as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sprue)

noun:  (medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
noun:  (metallurgy) A channel through which molten metal is poured into the mold during the casting process.
noun:  (metallurgy) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
verb:  To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.

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