blast furnace

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   a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air

   Broaderfurnace

   Part ofsteel mill

Questions about blast furnace

What does blast furnace mean?

blast furnace means "a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air".

Is blast furnace a common word?

blast furnace is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.