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

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace.

Cockle :: Cockle (n.) The fire chamber of a furnace.

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

Forge :: Forge (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy..

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

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..

Kiln :: Kiln (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone..

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..

Beauxite :: Beauxite (n.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat..

Chauffer :: Chauffer (n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top..

Bocca :: Bocca (n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.

Ash-oven :: Ash-oven (n.) A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

Ball :: Ball (v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

Puddle-ball :: Puddle-ball (n.) The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

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

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

Furnace :: 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..

Tewel :: Tewel (n.) The tuyere of a furnace.

Reverberatory :: Reverberatory (n.) A reverberatory furnace.

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