Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Forehearth

Forehearth , noun

(Metallurgy) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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