blast furnace

noun

a large vertical furnace for smelting iron from ore, using coke as fuel: designed so as to direct a continuous blast of air through the fuel in order to obtain a high rate of combustion.

Words nearby blast furnace

blaspheme, blasphemous, blasphemy, blast, blast cell, blast furnace, blast injection, blast injury, blast lamp, blast off, blast wave

Origin of blast furnace

First recorded in 1700–10

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Example sentences from the Web for blast furnace

The blast-furnace department was no sooner added than another step was seen to be essential to our independence and success.
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How came this living form, clad in gleaming silver, out there in that blast-furnace heat?
The Great Dome on Mercury|Arthur Leo Zagat
Through the quick sparks of fire I tried to watch the blast-furnace below.
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The manufacturing towns of England are mostly pandemoniums of smoke or blast-furnace fumes.
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Excavations were in progress for the blast-furnace and accessory buildings, and developed a strange formation.
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British Dictionary definitions for blast furnace

blast furnace

noun

a vertical cylindrical furnace for smelting iron, copper, lead, and tin ores. The ore, scrap, solid fuel, and slag-forming materials are fed through the top and a blast of preheated air is forced through the charge from the bottom. Metal and slag are run off from the base

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