Usually means: Intermediate product of smelting iron.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word pig iron:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. pig iron: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pig iron: Merriam-Webster
  3. pig iron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pig iron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pig iron: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pig iron: Vocabulary.com
  7. pig-iron, pig iron: Wordnik
  8. pig iron: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pig iron: Wiktionary
  10. pig iron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pig iron: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pig iron, pig iron: Dictionary.com
  13. Pig-iron, Pig iron (disambiguation), Pig iron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pig iron: Rhymezone
  15. Pig-iron: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. pig iron: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pig iron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. pig iron: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pig iron: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pig iron: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pig iron: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pig-iron: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. PIG IRON: Power Engineering

(Note: See pig_irons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pig iron)

noun:  A type of crude, brittle iron shaped like a block, unsuitable for working but suitable for casting, commonly used as an industrial raw material.

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