pig iron

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   crude iron tapped from a blast furnace

   Broaderiron

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Questions about pig iron

What does pig iron mean?

pig iron means "crude iron tapped from a blast furnace".

Is pig iron a common word?

pig iron is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.