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• Pig iron — [ thumb|300px|Two pig iron weights for use in a theatrefly system.] [ puddling process of smelting iron ore to make wrought iron from pig iron, the right half of the illustration (not shown) displays men working a blast furnace, Tiangong Kaiwu… …   Wikipedia

• pig — [pig] n. pl. pigs or pig [ME pigge, orig., young pig (replacing OE swin) < OE * picga, as in picgbread, mast, pig s food] 1. any swine, esp. the unweaned young of the thick bodied domesticated species (Sus scrofa): see HOG (sense 1) 2. meat… …   English World dictionary

• pig — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English pigge Date: 13th century 1. a. a young domesticated swine not yet sexually mature; broadly a wild or domestic swine b. an animal related to or resembling the pig 2. a. pork …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• pig — Synonyms and related words: Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Caffre cat, Dogberry, Indian buffalo, John Law, Kodiak bear, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, animal, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, aoudad, apar, armadillo, ass …   Moby Thesaurus

• pig iron — the product of the blast furnace. The term was derived from the method of casting the bars of the pig iron in depressions or molds formed in the sand floor adjacent to the furnace. These were connected to a runner (known as a sow) and when filled …   Mechanics glossary

• pig — A casting of iron; pig iron. An animal otherwise known as a hog, especially a young hog. See hog; pig iron …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• casting — Synonyms and related words: CYSP sculpture, adding, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, angling, archery, architectural sculpture, architecture, assembly, bone carving, building, bullion, button, calculation, calculus, cast, ceroplastics, chasing,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Leon the Pig Farmer — Infobox Film name = Leon the Pig Farmer caption = director = Vadim Jean Gary Sinyor producer = Vadim Jean Gary Sinyor writer = Michael Normand Gary Sinyor starring = music = David Hughes John Murphy cinematography = Gordon Hickie editing = Ewa J …   Wikipedia

• steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …   Universalium

• metallurgy — metallurgic, metallurgical, adj. metallurgically, adv. metallurgist /met l err jist/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jist/, n. /met l err jee/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jee/, n. 1. the technique or science of working or heating metals so as… …   Universalium

• 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