blast furnace
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.54 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
noun
An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: ironworks, steelworks"
- "Meronym: tuyeres"
- "Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough."