单词 | pig iron |
释义 | pig ironn. 1. Metallurgy. Cast iron as first obtained from a smelting furnace, in the form of oblong blocks. Cf. pig n.1 11. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > cast iron > cast iron in form of pigs sow-iron1608 pig iron1665 sow-metal1674 pig1763 1665 D. Dudley Mettallum Martis sig. E2 Some Furnaces make Twenty Tuns of Pig Iron per Week. 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 363 The brittleness and shortness of Pig-iron. 1775 S. Neville Diary 5 Oct. (1950) x. 229 The pig-iron is melted in air-furnaces. 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 104 The lateral moulds or channels are called pigs; and hence cast-iron receives the appellation of pig-iron. 1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 325 The finest English pig-iron is from Cumberland hæmatite. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 May 9/2 The pig-iron market opened with little doing at 47s. 2½d. cash. 1911 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 30 Sept. 218/1 The foundries of this country melt annually about 6,000,000 tons of pig iron and scrap. 1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. ix. 119 The use of limestone as a flux in the manufacture of pig iron in the blast furnace. It combines with silica to make slag. 1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose iii. 21 I mind carrying coke, pig iron, and sand from Staffordshire to..Banbury. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > plate to protect meat from fire pig-plate1679 pig iron1732 1732 True & Exact Particular & Inventory Denis Bond 19 A Range compleat, a Jack with a Multiplying Wheel,..three Spits, two Trivets, a Pig Iron, Grid Iron, Hanging Iron, Sallemander and a Pan Iron. a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 105 If it [sc. the fire] should be too fierce in the middle, you must make use of a pig-iron. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 622/2 Pig-iron, a flat piece of iron, which the cook interposes between the fire and meat roasting, when she wants to retard, or put back that operation. It is hung on the bars by a hook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1665 |
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