Meaning of open-hearth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.
   not-comparable
2. Designating the steel so produced.
   not-comparable
3. Describing an open hearth in the home, especially in premodern centuries when such hearths were more common.
   not-comparable

Examples

“a then-new steel mill with three large open-hearth furnaces”

“Early open-hearth steels, beating crucible steels on price but often unable to match⟳ their quality, were nonetheless well suited to many applications where extreme strength was superfluous but low cost⟳ was essential.”

“the little tricks of open-hearth cooking that she had nearly forgotten after years behind a coal range”

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