Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Metal in pigs, as it is produced from the ore in the first operation of smelting.
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Examples
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In the neighboring furnace-buildings lay great heaps of the refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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The charge of a puddling furnace, consisting of 500 pounds of pig-metal and eighty pounds of "fix," produces with coal fuel 490 to 500 pounds of iron.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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In the neighboring furnace-buildings lay great heaps of the refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run.
Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman Rebecca Harding Davis 1870
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