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Hearth :: Hearth (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, 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..

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

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

Ash-oven :: Ash-oven (n.) A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

Clinker :: Clinker (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag..

Crematory :: Crematory (n.) A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace..

Fix :: Fix (v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

Howell :: Howell (n.) The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace..

Foyer :: Foyer (n.) The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.

Heat :: Heat (v. t.) To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like..

Dam :: Dam (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace..

Regenerator :: Regenerator (n.) A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas..

Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

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

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..

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