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Pernot Furnace :: Pernot furnace () A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel..

Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire.

Furnace :: Furnace (n.) To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace..

Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal..

Lacashire Boiler :: Lacashire boiler () A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

Stoke :: Stoke (v. t.) To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc..

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling..

Ash-furnace :: Ash-furnace (n.) Alt. of Ash-ove.

Vat :: Vat (n.) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry..

Cinder :: Cinder (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano..

Almond Furnace :: Almond furnace () A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter..

Beauxite :: Beauxite (n.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat..

Blower :: Blower (n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc..

Brickkiln :: Brickkiln (n.) A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them..

Reverberation :: Reverberation (n.) The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace..

Teaze-hole :: Teaze-hole (n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.

Breast :: Breast (n.) The front of a furnace.

Rotator :: Rotator (n.) A revolving reverberatory furnace.

Shadrach :: Shadrach (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.).

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace.

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