Definitions for blast-furnace

blast-furnace blast furnace

Blast-Furnace is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 1859 anagrams from letters in blast-furnace (-aabceflnrstu).

Definitions for blast-furnace

noun

  1. a large vertical furnace for smelting iron from ore, using coke as fuel: designed so as to direct a continuous blast of air through the fuel in order to obtain a high rate of combustion.

Origin of blast-furnace

First recorded in 1700-10

Examples for blast-furnace

Hence his whole soul had now the temperature of a blast furnace.

So he invented (in 1828) a hot blast for the blast furnace (Fig. 9).

O'Rane responded, in a tone that would have chilled a blast furnace.

“We stand about as much chance as a snowball in a blast furnace,” said Garry.

The product as it comes from the blast furnace is called pig-iron.

The fires of hell, hotter than any blast furnace had ever been, seethed within them.

In a smother of foam she came on, the explosions roaring like a blast furnace.

He engraved his blast furnace, and the casting of a beam of a steam engine.

Well, where could we set up a blast furnace with not a dollar in the party?

In a moment, the room was like the inside of a blast furnace.

Word Value for blast-furnace
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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