furnace lining

1. 1.

   lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace

   Synonymsrefractory

   Broaderlining

Questions about furnace lining

What does furnace lining mean?

furnace lining means "lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace".

What is another word for furnace lining?

Close synonyms include refractory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is furnace lining a common word?

furnace lining 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.