OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does open-hearth furnace mean? 

• OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE (noun)
  The noun OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("open-hearth furnace" is a kind of...):

furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)