A variant or related form referring to the throttle or a type of choke in machinery, or a related term in metallurgy.
Possibly related to dross or derived from Old Germanic words, though etymology is less clear than for standard English metallurgical terms.
Drossel appears in technical German and English texts about metalworking and engines—it's a wonderful example of how specialized crafts develop their own vocabulary that seems almost magical to outsiders!
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