Definition of furnace

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

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Stoker :: Stokehole (n.) The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand..
Base-burner :: Base-burner (n.) A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed..
Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
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..
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..
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln..
Heat :: Heat (n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats..
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
Finery :: Finery (n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling..
Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The clogging of a blast furnace.
Fowlerite :: Fowlerite (n.) A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc..
Fascet :: Fascet (n.) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty..
Fettle :: Fettle (a.) To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace..
Well :: Well (v. i.) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls..
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace..
Salamander :: Salamander (n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
Furnace :: Furnace (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline..
Forehearth :: Forehearth (n.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
Cinder :: Cinder (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano..
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