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Definition of furnace

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Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc..

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Brickkiln :: Brickkiln (n.) A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them..

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye..

Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The clogging of a blast furnace.

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..

Stoker :: Stoker (v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire..

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part..

Cockle :: Cockle (n.) The dome of a heating furnace.

Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal..

Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace..

Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.

Dome :: Dome (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc..

Forehearth :: Forehearth (n.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

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

Teazer :: Teazer (n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works..

Firing :: Firing (n.) The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.

Ash-furnace :: Ash-furnace (n.) Alt. of Ash-ove.

Kiln :: Kiln (n.) A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.

Furnace :: Furnace (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline..

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..

Deflector :: Deflector (n.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion)..