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/ˈbluːməri/ The first forge in an iron-works through which the metal passes after having been melted from the ore, and in which it is made into blooms.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > furnaces for treating iron
string-hearth1409
smithy1565
bloomery1584
chafery1663
air-bloomery1825
blast-bloomery1860
scrap-furnace1861
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1584–5 Act 27 Eliz. xix Any maner of Yron Milles, Furnaces, Hammer, Finarie, Forge or Blomarie.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 111 There be in Ireland..above 20 Forges and Bloomeries.
1693 M. Lister in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 866 Those Bars which are wrought out of a Loop, taken up out of the Finnery Harth, or second Forge, are much better Iron than those which are made in the Bloomary or first Harth.
1764 J. Eliot in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 56 It is wrought or smelted in a common bloomary.
1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. Introd. 30 The bloomeries of Furness..were in full operation in the thirteenth century.
1866 W. S. Jevons Coal Quest. (ed. 2) 217 When the charcoal bloomary and forge gave place to the coke blast furnace.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
bloomeryn.2
A collection or place full of blooms.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > place for
bloomery1832
flower room1873
1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 864 Leading you sometimes into a greenery of glade, and sometimes into a bloomery of sweet-briars.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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