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

Crematory :: Crematory (n.) A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.

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..

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

Chafery :: Chafery (v. t.) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars..

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.

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

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..

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

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..

Stoker :: Stokehole (n.) The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand..

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..

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..

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..

Fettling :: Fettling (n.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace..

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace..

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

Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall..

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