A crucible.

originally. The cupel used in treating gold or silver alloys or ore; now esp. the cupel, with the iron frame or basket which contains it, forming…

A vessel, usually of earthenware, made to endure great heat, used for fusing metals, etc.; a melting-pot.

An implement of the form described above (sense 2), or something similar to this, used for various… In melting, heating, or assaying substances…

A vessel in which metals or other materials are melted and mixed.

A crucible.

a crucible in which metal is refined; also figurative.

(See quots.)

A small flat circular porous vessel, with a shallow depression in the middle, made of pounded bone-ash pressed into shape by a mould, and used in…

A crucible.

A crucible.

A vessel in which metals are melted; a melting pot.

Metallurgy and Chemistry. A cover which encloses an object that is to be heated in a furnace or kiln and shields it from the flames and the…

Apparently an error for cruset, n., crucible.

A case in which articles are baked or fired in a furnace; = French cassette.

†(a) an iron pot used with the sand-furnace; (b) dialect a quicksand.

Of or pertaining to Hesse in Germany.

A vessel resembling a pan used in various technical processes. Metallurgy. A container in which ores are ground and the metal separated by…

In names of various tools and implements. Founding. A clay-lined ladle having long handles, one of them T-shaped, in which to carry molten metal from…

(a) a box in which a stereotype plate is cast; (b) a crucible.

the largest of an array of several crucibles used in the production of brass, typically placed in the centre of the array and filled with the…

Steel-making. A large vessel or retort, made of iron and lined with some refractory material (usually a kind of siliceous stone call ganister), in…

A vessel used in separating silver from lead.