bloomery
Metalworking. a hearth for smelting iron in blooms of pasty consistency by means of charcoal.
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How to use bloomery in a sentence
An hour later when his regiment came down into bloomery Gap, he found the colonel and made his report.
The Long Roll | Mary JohnstonThis was the first time he had been thus summoned since that unlucky winter evening at bloomery Gap.
The Long Roll | Mary JohnstonAs you say, he made the very man we're talking of do that from bloomery Gap to Romney—and nobody ever knew why.
The Long Roll | Mary JohnstonWhen a Catalan forge is employed in making blooms, it is called a bloomery.
Popular Technology; Volume 2 | Edward HazenAcross the road from this seat and close to the beck are the slag mounds of another bloomery.
The Book of Coniston | William Gershom Collingwood
British Dictionary definitions for bloomery
/ (ˈbluːmərɪ) /
a place in which malleable iron is produced directly from iron ore
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