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

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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.)

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