a large vertical furnace for smelting iron from ore, using coke as fuel: designed so as to direct a continuous blast of air through the fuel in order to obtain a high rate of combustion.
[ 1700-10 ]
BLAST FURNACE
Meaning of BLAST FURNACE in English
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012