Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In metallurgy, a building erected over a smelting-furnace; smelting-works.
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Examples
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Each village has its smelting-house, its charcoal-burners, and blacksmiths.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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Common ores would be here of no great value; for what requires to be separated by fire, must, if it were found, be carried away in its mineral state, here being no fewel for the smelting-house or forge.
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The charcoal, with its adhering chlorides, was conveyed to the smelting-house and the gold smelted into bars of extremely pure metal.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The mines have been worked at intervals since, and as late as 1845 a smelting-house was built in the valley.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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This was sent down by express to the smelting-house.
The Wife of Chino 1903
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O rare outgate from the scorn of the causeway to the smelting-house of 'Him who hath His fire in Zion!'
Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894
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"I telt them afore what their damned smelting-house would do for me!" said the miller, striding about in his impotent rage.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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"Got your smelting-house at wark down at the pit, Mattha?" asked the blacksmith.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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"I war wond'rin 'whether lang Dick o' the Syke had kindled a fire to-night, or whether yon lowe on the side of the Causey were frae the new smelting-house."
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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Old Laird Fisher was trundling a wheelbarrow on the bank of the smelting-house.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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