Usually means: Opening for draining molten metal.
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▸ noun:  (metallurgy) In a blast furnace, a hole which molten metal or slag is tapped off through.

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mudhole, tap cinder, scaffold, sludge hole, tubbing, slake trough, sapping, bosh, trogue, sprue, more...



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