NOUN | artifact | open-hearth furnace | a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it |
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Meaning | A furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it. | |
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Broader | furnace | An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. |
Adjectives | open-hearth | of or relating to or produced by the open-hearth process |
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