open-hearth
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4ADJ.
early, large, little
VERB + OPEN-HEARTH
tricks
OPEN-HEARTH + NOUN
crucible, furnaces, steels
PREP.
with
Definitions
adj
Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.
a then-new steel mill with three large open-hearth furnaces
Designating the steel so produced.
Early open-hearth steels, beating crucible steels on price but often unable to match their quality, were nonetheless well suited to many applications where extreme strength was superfluous but low cost was essential.
Describing an open hearth in the home, especially in premodern centuries when such hearths were more common.
the little tricks of open-hearth cooking that she had nearly forgotten after years behind a coal range
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3a then-new steel mill with three large open-hearth furnaces
WiktionaryEarly open-hearth steels, beating crucible steels on price but often unable to match their quality, were nonetheless well suited to many applications where extreme strength was superfluous but low cos
Wiktionarythe little tricks of open-hearth cooking that she had nearly forgotten after years behind a coal range
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