bloomery

American  

[bloo-muh-ree] / ˈblu mə ri /

noun

bloomeries plural

1. Metalworking. a hearth for smelting iron in blooms of pasty consistency by means of charcoal.

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bloomery British  

/ ˈbluːmərɪ /

noun

1. a place in which malleable iron is produced directly from iron ore

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• bloomeries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bloomery

First recorded in 1575–85; bloom ² + -ery

Example Sentences

We are anchored tonight off the coast of Delaware, where there stands, on the bank, a great ironworks—a bloomery and slitting mill—all cold and neglected.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The pitted iron hardware deep lilac in color, smeltered in some bloomery in Cadiz or Bristol and beaten out on a blackened anvil, good to last three hundred years against the sea.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

The whole place seemed one huge parterre of bloomery; even traders set bouquets in every shop and stall, and the scented air was heavy with perfume.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He envisioned much more for the now �5,000 investment than the disparagingly reported return of a "fire shovell and tonges and a little barre of iron made by a bloomery...."

From The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Hatch, Charles E.

A bloomery fire does not require more than 2000 acres of woodland, while a blast furnace will use the charcoal of 5000.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various