finery hearth

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• finery — noun /ˈfaɪnəɹi/ a) Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels. In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French ringard) …   Wiktionary

• finery process — Early method of converting cast iron to wrought iron, superseding the bloomery process after blast furnaces became widespread. Pieces of cast iron (see pig iron) were placed on a finery hearth, on which charcoal was being burned with a plentiful… …   Universalium

• Finery — Fin er*y, n. 1. Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Don t choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 2. Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Finery forge — Iron tapped from the blast furnace is pig iron, and contains significant amounts of carbon and silicon. To produce malleable wrought iron, it needs to undergo a further process. In the early modern period, this was carried out in a finery forge.… …   Wikipedia

• finery — finery1 /fuy neuh ree/, n. fine or showy dress, ornaments, etc. [1670 80; FINE1 + ERY] finery2 /fuy neuh ree/, n., pl. fineries. Metalworking. a hearth for converting cast iron into wrought iron; refinery. [1600 10; < MF finerie, equiv. to… …   Universalium

• finery — finery1 [ fʌɪn(ə)ri] noun ostentatious clothes or decoration. Origin C17: from fine1, on the pattern of bravery. finery2 [ fʌɪnəri] noun (plural fineries) historical a hearth where pig iron was converted into wrought iron …   English new terms dictionary

• finery — I. /ˈfaɪnəri / (say fuynuhree) noun (plural fineries) 1. fine or showy dress, ornaments, etc. 2. Rare smartness or elegance. {fine1 (adjective) + ery} II. /ˈfaɪnəri / (say fuynuhree) noun (plural fineries) a h …  

• finery — 1. n. showy dress or decoration. Etymology: FINE(1) + ERY, after BRAVERY 2. n. (pl. ies) hist. a hearth where pig iron was converted into wrought iron. Etymology: F finerie f. finer refine, FINE(1) …   Useful english dictionary

• Open hearth furnace — Engineering portal …   Wikipedia

• Wrought iron — is commercially pure iron. In contrast to steel, it has a very low carbon content. It is a fibrous material due to the slag inclusions (a normal constituent). This is also what gives it a grain resembling wood, which is visible when it is etched… …   Wikipedia

• iron processing — Introduction       use of a smelting process to turn the ore into a form from which products can be fashioned. Included in this article also is a discussion of the mining of iron and of its preparation for smelting.       Iron (Fe) is a… …   Universalium