blast furnace

Definitions

1. An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
2. As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.

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“Holonyms: ironworks, steelworks”

“Meronym: tuyeres”

“Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk⟳ a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough.”

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