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(metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
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A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out.
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(metalworking) A Bessemer process or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment.
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The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide.
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(metallurgy, historical) The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation.
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A building traditionally used for smelting tin in Cornwall and Devon, England, containing a furnace and a pair of bellows powered by an adjacent water wheel.
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(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
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(metalworking) A method of coating iron or steel with magnetic iron oxide in order to minimize atmospheric corrosion. The articles to be treated are put into a closed retort and a current of superheated steam passed through for a period, followed by a current of producer gas (carbon monoxide), to reduce any higher oxides that may have been formed.
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To make a burin from a flint
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The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
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A holder for a wax taper.
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A person who collects / removes cinders / ash / slag
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A person who removes clinker from boilers, furnaces &c
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The milling of two or more things simultaneously
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(metallurgy) A retort or furnace, used e.g. in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
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A furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.
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(historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
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Synonym of electric carving knife
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Steel produced by electric reduction.
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(metalworking) A powdered substance, such as charcoal or bituminous coal, applied to the face of a mould, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.
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The hearth of a metal-forging shop; the forge of a smithy.
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Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
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The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
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One who operates a furnace in metalworking.
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A workman who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
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The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting.
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A solid adhesive in a twist- or push-up tube, most commonly seen in schools and offices.
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A specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth century that made, from particularly cattle bones, the adhesives used in for instance paperwork, bookbinding, joinery, ivory inlay.
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Alternative form of glue stick. [A solid adhesive in a twist- or push-up tube, most commonly seen in schools and offices.]
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Alternative spelling of glue stick [A solid adhesive in a twist- or push-up tube, most commonly seen in schools and offices.]
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A person whose trade is to beat gold into gold leaf.
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(slang) Initialism of glue stick. [A solid adhesive in a twist- or push-up tube, most commonly seen in schools and offices.]
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A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
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An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.
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(historical) a person, in a laundry or in a paper mill, whose job was to hotpress
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A cement for joints, composed of cast-iron borings or filings, sal ammoniac, etc.
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The worker in charge of a kettle used in dyeing, bleaching, etc
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(metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
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Someone who transports molten metal in a ladle.
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A machine consisting of a revolving lap on a vertical spindle, used for grinding and polishing.
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The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
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(engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
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A furnace used for melting iron in a foundry.
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(metallurgy) A person who works with metals.
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(dated) A person who works in metal (the type of material).
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A type of welding, by means of a consumable metal-wire-feed electrode and an atmosphere of an inert gas
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(attributive) A process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay.
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(metallurgy) A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.
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A person who applies and maintains nail products on natural fingernails and toenails, to enhance their look.
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A tiered set of sieves used in milling.
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A powder used to polish silverware, especially silver plate
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A tool consisting of a flat wooden block with a long iron handle, used for flattening out split cylinders of blown glass.
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The button of metal from an assay.
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(metallurgy) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
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Alternative form of sandpaper [A strong paper coated with sand, ground glass, or other abrasive material for smoothing and polishing.]
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a hot iron used to destroy tissue
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(mining, historical) A person employed to break up waste rock.
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A person employed to do smelting.
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A building or place for smelting.
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A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
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(metalworking) To test for the general character of a steel, when testing a piece of steel, by grinding it, producing sparks, using color of sparks to determine its general classification.
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(uncountable) Zinc, often in blocks or ingot form.
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(metalworking, countable) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
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A tin mine or tin works.
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(transitive, uncommon) To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
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(dated) One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where those metals are used.
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The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glassworking.
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The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
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A mine from which tin is extracted.
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Alternative spelling of tin mine [A mine from which tin is extracted.]
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A funnel used in smelting, foundry work etc.
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A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
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Alternative form of waveplate [(physics) A thin layer of a birefringent material that is used to introduce a controlled phase shift between the two polarization components of a light wave, thereby altering its polarization]
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(figuratively) A stimulant.
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One who works with zinc.
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