Bloomery

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  • n. A forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
    • Word Usage
    "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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