bar-iron

But this sum included many items which represent raw natural products converted merely into material for subsequent manufacture, as, for example, pig - and bar-iron, planed boards, sole leather, ingot - and bar-copper, cotton-seed oil, and pig - and bar-zinc.

Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

_ The best way of making this, of course, is to cut a piece of bar-iron the right size.

How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity

These vessels 'boilers and machinery were protected by heavy timber barricades, filled in with compressed cotton; and they were prepared with bar-iron casing around their bows to act as "Rams."

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

New mines and railways cannot be opened with gold at the present rates, or while the internal taxes, direct and indirect, add fifteen dollars to the cost of each ton of bar-iron.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

Until 1844, the rolling mills of this country produced little more than bar-iron, hoops, and plates.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

An armourer's forge and tools were now much wanted but the deficiency of an anvil was supplied by the substitution of a pig of ballast; and some chain plates that we had fortunately taken from the Frederick's wreck, and some bar-iron which was brought out from England by the Dromedary, enabled us to place our vessel in a state of security which we were by no means in before.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

All the early attempts at railroads used the "strap" rail; unless cast "fish-bellies" were used; which was flat bar-iron provided with counter sunk holes, in which to drive nails for holding the iron to long stringers of wood laid upon ties.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

This, said the bar-iron shed to the blooming mill,

Smoke and Steel. I. Smoke Nights 1920

By the way, there are no yokes, but you'll find some bar-iron and some timber at the blacksmith's shed.

Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Frank Fox 1917

By 1800 a score of profitable industries had arisen, and by 1803 the first bar-iron foundry was, to quote the advertisement of its owner,

The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway Archer Butler Hulbert 1903