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blowing-house1674
stow1839
1674 J. RayPrepar. Tin Coll. 120 The black Tin is smelted at the blowing house with Charcoal.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. RudlerUre's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1005 Formerly in Cornwall nearly all the tin was smelted in blast-furnaces; these works were called blowing-houses.