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Fornicated :: Fornicated (a.) Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

Crown :: Crown (n.) The dome of a furnace.

Salamander :: Salamander (n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated..

Fix :: Fix (v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

Fauld :: Fauld (n.) The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

Floss :: Floss (n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present..

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

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..

Firestone :: Firestone (n.) A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces..

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car..

Stokehole :: Stoke (v. i.) To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc..

Shingle :: Shingle (v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace..

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

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

Tromp :: Tromp (n.) A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace..

Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

Feed :: Feed (n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones..

Cast Iron :: Cast iron () Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc..

Tuyere :: Tuyere (n.) A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge..

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