Smelting Furnace with Fire Burning

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“A furnace in which metals are separated from their ores. a, fire-brick lining; b, masonry; c, opening in the side of the upper part of the furnace through which it is charged; e, boshes; f, throat; g, hearth or crucible; h, dam-stone; i, twyer; That part lying below the widest diameter, above the boshes, is called the shaft.” —Whitney, 1889

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iron, fire, brick, metal, steel, smelt, ore, smelting, masonry, furnace, blast furnace

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Iron and Steel Industry

Source

William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5715

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