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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..

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

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..

Burden :: Burden (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace..

Downcome :: Downcome (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned..

Cinder :: Cinder (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano..

Stoke :: Stoke (v. t.) To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc..

Blower :: Blower (n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc..

Pernot Furnace :: Pernot furnace () A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel..

Runner :: Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed..

Teaze-hole :: Teaze-hole (n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.

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

Tutty :: Tutty (n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide..

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..

Fowlerite :: Fowlerite (n.) A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc..

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

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..

Supply :: Supply (v. t.) To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition..

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

Bulldog :: Bulldog (n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill..

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