cinder pig

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   pig iron containing a substantial proportion of slag

   Broaderpig iron

Questions about cinder pig

What does cinder pig mean?

cinder pig means "pig iron containing a substantial proportion of slag".

Is cinder pig a common word?

cinder pig 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.