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

Noun Inflected Forms

• bloomeries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bloomery

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

Example Sentences

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bloomery bloomeries

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

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 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

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

Large quantities of iron scoria, scattered over the fields near the village, are generally allowed to indicate that a Roman bloomery was established near the spot.

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

That they ran altogether upon bloomeries in New England and Pennsylvania till his example had made them attempt greater works.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

The heaps of cinders which are discovered on the hills of Monmouthshire are the production either of bloomeries, the most ancient mode of fusing iron, or of furnaces of a very antique construction. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch

Then there were bloomeries and ironworks, wharves for landing goods, called "bridges," warehouses, windmills, watermills, sawmills, glassworks, silkhouses, brick and pottery kilns, lime kilns, saltworks, and blockhouses.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

In England, as in other countries, charcoal was the only fuel at first used; and after bloomeries had been in vogue for centuries, the blast furnace was introduced from the shores of the Rhine.

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

Because the old fashioned bloomeries and Catalan forges could produce blooms only at a high cost, and because the new processes introduced failed to turn out good blooms.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various