Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blast of air that has not been heated.
- noun A blast that has been cooled by artificial moans.
- Using an unheated blast or one that has been cooled.
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Examples
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Cornwall Iron Furnace is the only surviving, intact charcoal cold-blast furnace in the western part of the world.
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Cornwall Iron Furnace is the only surviving, intact charcoal cold-blast furnace in the western part of the world.
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But people began to notice that the weather wasn't always Warming-sometimes, when Al Gore would give a speech, an Arctic cold-blast would hit town.
Cold Fury 2008
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It was about forty feet high, three feet across the tunnel head and ten feet across the boshes, with two engines, and furnished with hot-air pipes, though only cold-blast was used.
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A] He also states, that the loss of strength in cold-blast cast iron, in a variation of temperature from 26° to 190° = 164° Fahr., is
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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The Graham, or the best Haxall, or the health-food cold-blast? "asked Sewell.
The Minister's Charge William Dean Howells 1878
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