Bloomery
- 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 word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.