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Chafery — Chaf er*y, n. [See {Chafe}, v. t.] (Iron Works) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Chafery — A chafery is a variety of hearth used in ironmaking for reheating a bloom of iron, in the course of its being drawn out into a bar of wrought iron. The equivalent term for a bloomery was string hearth, except in 17th century Cumbria, where the… … Wikipedia
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Wrought iron — is commercially pure iron. In contrast to steel, it has a very low carbon content. It is a fibrous material due to the slag inclusions (a normal constituent). This is also what gives it a grain resembling wood, which is visible when it is etched… … Wikipedia
Finery forge — Iron tapped from the blast furnace is pig iron, and contains significant amounts of carbon and silicon. To produce malleable wrought iron, it needs to undergo a further process. In the early modern period, this was carried out in a finery forge.… … Wikipedia
Ironworks — An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and/or steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the plural of ironworks is ironworks .An integrated ironworks in the 19th… … Wikipedia
Cyfarthfa Ironworks — Cyfartha Ironworks in 1894 The Cyfarthfa Ironworks was a major 18th century and 19th century ironworks located in Cyfarthfa, on the north western edge of Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales. Contents … Wikipedia
Tuyere — A tuyere is a tube, nozzle or pipe through which air is blown into a furnace or hearth. [W. K. V. Gale, The iron and Steel industry: a dictionary of terms (David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1972), 216 7. ] Air (or oxygen) is injected into a hearth… … Wikipedia
Charles Wood (ironmaster) — For other people named Charles Wood, see Charles Wood (disambiguation). Charles Wood (1702 – October 1774) was an ironmaster and one of the inventors of the potting and stamping method of making wrought iron from pig iron. Contents 1 Parents 2… … Wikipedia
forge — I n 1.(all for heating metal) fireplace, furnace, hearth, bloomery, chafery. 2. smithy, smithery, stithy, blacksmith s workshop; ironworks, foundry. v 3. beat, hammer out, Fig. extund; form, shape, fashion, mold, found, cast. 4. conceive, invent … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
