Definition of Bloomery

1. n. A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

Definition of Bloomery

1. Noun. A forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bloomery

1. a furnace for smelting iron [n -ERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloomery

blooey
blooie
blook
blooks
bloom
bloom is off the peach
bloom is off the rose
bloom of youth
bloom syndrome
bloomaries
bloomary
bloomed
bloomer
bloomeries
bloomers
bloomery (current term)
bloomier
bloomiest
blooming
blooming(a)
blooming-fool begonia
blooming heck
blooming hell
bloomingly
bloomingness
bloomings
bloomless
blooms
bloomy
bloop

Literary usage of Bloomery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Western North Carolina: A History (1730-1913) by John Preston Arthur (1914)
"... bloomery Forge near the mouth of Helton creek was built in 1807 and washed away in 1817; that the Cranberry bloomery Forge on Cranberry was built in ..."

2. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1899)
"Reports on Excavations at Springs bloomery, ... With this object in view the large bloomery at the Springs near Coniston Hall was trenched and examined in ..."

3. Coal, Iron, and Oil: A Plain and Popular Work on Our Mines and Mineral by Samuel Harries Daddow, Benjamin Bannan (1866)
"IMPROVED FORGE AND bloomery. The forge here presented is rather novel in construction, ... The escape-heat from the bloomery also passes through the ..."

4. Iron and Steel by John Henry Stansbie (1908)
"The High bloomery. A, Shaft. ... The Osmund Furnace, which comes between the shallow hearth and the high bloomery, was in use in the North of Europe for ..."

5. The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel by Thomas Turner (1895)
"American bloomery.—This is probably the most important of any of the direct ... The arrangement of an American bloomery is thus very similar to that of a ..."

6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1858)
"On the Discovery of the Remains of an ancient Iron-Smelting Furnace or "bloomery," at Lochgoilhead, Argyle- shire, with Analysis of the Furnace Slag. ..."

7. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...: Comprising Annals by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1868)
"Methodist bloomery on the Pequannock, twenty-five miles northwest of the ... The following bloomery forges in Morris County were erected about the year 1790 ..."

8. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1866)
"Methodist bloomery on the Pequannock, twenty-five miles northwest of the ... The following bloomery forges in Morris County were erected about the year 1790 ..."

9. Western North Carolina: A History (1730-1913) by John Preston Arthur (1914)
"... bloomery Forge near the mouth of Helton creek was built in 1807 and washed away in 1817; that the Cranberry bloomery Forge on Cranberry was built in ..."

10. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1899)
"Reports on Excavations at Springs bloomery, ... With this object in view the large bloomery at the Springs near Coniston Hall was trenched and examined in ..."

11. Coal, Iron, and Oil: A Plain and Popular Work on Our Mines and Mineral by Samuel Harries Daddow, Benjamin Bannan (1866)
"IMPROVED FORGE AND bloomery. The forge here presented is rather novel in construction, ... The escape-heat from the bloomery also passes through the ..."

12. Iron and Steel by John Henry Stansbie (1908)
"The High bloomery. A, Shaft. ... The Osmund Furnace, which comes between the shallow hearth and the high bloomery, was in use in the North of Europe for ..."

13. The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel by Thomas Turner (1895)
"American bloomery.—This is probably the most important of any of the direct ... The arrangement of an American bloomery is thus very similar to that of a ..."

14. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1858)
"On the Discovery of the Remains of an ancient Iron-Smelting Furnace or "bloomery," at Lochgoilhead, Argyle- shire, with Analysis of the Furnace Slag. ..."

15. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...: Comprising Annals by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1868)
"Methodist bloomery on the Pequannock, twenty-five miles northwest of the ... The following bloomery forges in Morris County were erected about the year 1790 ..."

16. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1866)
"Methodist bloomery on the Pequannock, twenty-five miles northwest of the ... The following bloomery forges in Morris County were erected about the year 1790 ..."

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