单词 | iron furnace |
释义 | > as lemmasiron furnace iron furnace n. now chiefly historical a furnace in which iron is smelted.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from examples meaning ‘furnace made of iron’; cf. iron adj. 1.In early use chiefly in biblical references and allusions to Egypt as a place of captivity: cf. quot. a1382 (figurative). ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. iv. 20 Ȝow forsoþe took þe lord & ladde out from þe yryn forneys of Egipt [L. de fornace ferrea Aegypti]. 1579 T. Rogers tr. J. Habermann Enimie of Securitie 77 Bringing them out of the yron fornace of Pharao, through thy mighty and stretched out arme. 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xi. 78 Iron furnaces..may be much reformed and bettered with small charges, hauing our Ferricall inuention vnited to them. 1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. (ed. 2) 47 About two miles above Colchester there is an iron furnace, a forge..and a bolting-mill. 1882 Cent. Mag. July 440/2 Dark City of Glasgow, pulses of some huge iron-furnace..illuminating it. 1970 R. W. Thomas Iron & Steel Introd. 1/2 In 1574, of 58 iron furnaces in England, 51 were in the Weald. 2005 Independent 25 Apr. 10/1 Dry-stone mills, dams, bridges,..iron furnaces, lime kilns and distilleries are scattered throughout the landscape. < as lemmas |
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