pelti

Akin to Swedish späld, späll, dialectal variants of Swedish spjäll (“damper”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpelti/, [ˈpe̞lt̪i]
• Hyphenation: pel‧ti

pelti

1. sheet metal
2. plate (flat, flexible, metallic object of uniform thickness)
3. sheet (flat metal pan used for baking in oven)
4. damper (valve or movable plate in the flue duct of a stove, furnace, etc., used to regulate the draught of air)

• (plate):: A metal plate thicker than a few millimeters is better called levy. If necessary, the material of the plate can be specified by adding a modifier, e.g. teräslevy (“steel plate”).

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• pelit