English Explanatory Dictionary

open-hearth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.
  2. Designating the steel so produced.
  3. Describing an open hearth in the home, especially in premodern centuries when such hearths were more common.

Word forms

open-hearth open hearth

Related words

Siemens-Martin steel

Derived words

open-hearth furnace open-hearth process
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