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OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("open-hearth furnace" is a kind of...):
furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)