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Webster 1913 Edition
Bloomery
Bloom′er-y
,Noun.
(Manuf.)
A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.
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bloomery
bloomery
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Noun
bloomery (plural bloomeries)
- A forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore.
- The natives had probably smelted it themselves in their rude bloomeries, ... — Samuel Smiles, "Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers", 1863