General attributive, as retort cap, retort furnace, retort glass, retort house, retort process, etc.

A furnace for heating rooms by flues. Obsolete.

a furnace used to reheat iron or steel prior to hot working.

= reheating furnace n.

an oven heated by steam or hot water; (in later use also) a water bath designed for cooking vacuum-packed food.

To denote processes or devices discovered, invented, or developed by one or more of the brothers. Steel-making. Sometimes in combination with the…

‘a chemical furnace, used in the soda industry in decomposing chloride of sodium with sulphuric acid’ (Knight).

= reheating furnace n. at reheating, n. compounds.

A furnace used to heat vermiculite and other minerals with a laminar structure in order to convert water trapped between their layers into steam…