Furnaceman
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who operates a furnace in metalworking.
"We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal."
Example
More examples"We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal."
Etymology
From furnace + -man.
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