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Shadrach|ˈʃeɪdræk|
[Allusive use of the name of one of the ‘Three Children’ delivered unharmed from the fiery furnace (Dan. iii. 26, 27).]
1. See quot. 1847. Cf. salamander n. 3.
1847Webster, Shadrach, in the smelting of iron, a mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect.
2. (See quots.) local.
1827in S. Holland Mem. Sydney Smith (1855) I. 259 His fires are blown into brightness by Shadrachs, tubes furnished with air from without, opening into the centre of the fire. 1954D. Hartley Food in England iv. 46 In some places, a draught is obtained by shadrack, an underground arrangement like a small blast furnace through which the blast of a rotary fan is carried under the [peat] fire. |