salur-mev

blowpipe

Pronunciation

sɐluɾmɛv

Sound out salur-mev letter by letter:

• sss as in 'sun'
• aɐa as in 'cup' (open, central)
• lll as in 'love'
• uuoo as in 'food'
• rɾlightly tapped r, as in Spanish 'pero'
• mmm as in 'man'
• eɛe as in 'bet'
• vvv as in 'van'

a long, narrow iron pipe used to gather, work, and blow molten glass; a metal tube in which a flow of gas is mixed with a controlled flow of air to concentrate the heat of a flame, used especially in the identification of minerals