Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A furnace, oven, kiln, or retort used for reducing bituminous coal to coke; a coking-oven.
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Examples
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Memories of my childhood nights include a horizon turned red against the darkness by the coke-oven fires outside town.
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The washed coal, after being crushed and elevated to the top of the building, is conveyed by a chute to the coke-oven larry, and is weighed on the track scale, after which it is charged to the oven.
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The old form of coke-oven was called the bee-hive on account of its shape.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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U.S. Steel coke-oven explosion near Pittsburgh injures 20 14 hurt in Pennsylvania steel plant blast
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U.S. Steel coke-oven explosion near Pittsburgh injures 20
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The explosion on Wednesday occurred after an unplanned release of coke-oven gas ignited in one battery of coke ovens.
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; KOLKATA, 12 JUNE: As the mercury soared again and the regional meteorological office predicted no relief from the sultry conditions, there was no respite from Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has asked state-owned Durgapur Projects Limited to prevent pollution caused by its coke-oven plant by 21 June.
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It was a subsidiary of Hutni Projekt Praha, a large state enterprise specialized in coke-oven plants design and heavy metallurgical chemistry.
India Press Release Shriram EPC 2008
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Frances arrives outside the steel door, takes a last breath of coke-oven air and enters the dim roar of the speak, passing under Boutros’s arm as if it were a bridge.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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Frances arrives outside the steel door, takes a last breath of coke-oven air and enters the dim roar of the speak, passing under Boutros’s arm as if it were a bridge.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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