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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A furnace in which partially formed glassware may be placed to be softened when it becomes cooled and stiff in working; sometimes, the secondary furnace following the melting-furnace.
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Thus, until a more powerful blowing-furnace had been contrived, the production of pit-coal iron must necessarily have been limited.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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