单词 | fining forge |
释义 | > as lemmasfining forge fining forge n. now historical a furnace or hearth in which pig iron is refined to make wrought iron or steel; = finery n.1 1. ΚΠ 1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) II. 572 A patent for the employment of steam..in the smelting furnace and fining forge, was obtained. 1973 Econ. Hist. Rev. 26 594 Nef discovered..a rather more sensible estimate of 300 blast furnaces and fining forges. 2006 M. S. Smith Emergence of Mod. Business Enterprise in France 517 The fully evolved ‘English metallurgy’ thus used..a three- or four-step process that started with the smelting of iron ore with coke, followed by the refining of the resulting pig iron in direct contact with coke in a ‘fining forge’. < as lemmas |
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