bloomery
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun An establishment in which wrought-iron is made by the direct process, that is, from the ore directly, or without having been first produced in the form of cast-iron.
Examples
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Bar iron from a local "bloomery" or perhaps "Sweet" (Swede) iron brought from Philadelphia furnished the material for nails, cut or forged by hand, horseshoes, plows, wagon tires, grain scythes, hinges, locks, etc.
From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina
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To check the hypothesis for the bloomery smithing at Tekeli Tepe, we sampled fully preserved smithing cakes from this area to be sent to Belgium for detailed morphological study of the slag profile.
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The Woodlawn Forge, on Staley's Creek near the middle of the Crockett Tract, was built in 1857 by Mr. John P. Wright, and is a bloomery just like the others so common southwestward in these mountains, with one fire and one hammer and water blast; and run like them, by fits and starts, with a very small yearly yield.
Note
The word 'bloomery' comes from a sense of the word 'bloom' ('the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process') + the suffix -ery
