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n. Alternative spelling of noel.

n. Christmas; also, a shout of joy at Christmas for the birth of the Savior.

n. A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediæval origin, sung in honor of the Nativity of our Lord; a Christmas carol.

n. The core, or the inner part, of a mold for casting a large hollow object.

n. The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag.

n. Christmas: a word often used as a burden or an exclamation in Christmas songs; hence, a Christmas carol, properly one written polyphonically.

n. An obsolete form of newel.

n. In founding, the inner part of the mold for castings of large hollow articles, such as tanks, cisterns, and steam-engine cylinders of large size. It answers to the core of smaller castings.

"Fig. 1 shows an ordinary "gate" of fitting patterns being drawn from the drag or nowel part of the mould by means of a spike and rapper wielded by the moulder's hand after cope and drag have been rammed together on a "squeezer" and cope has been removed."

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