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Ingot

noun

Metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling. Synonyms: block of metal, metal bar.

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"Ingot" Quotes from Famous Books

... the plains were now illumined, and watched with wonder by the roving Apaches, when the great silver furnaces glowed and roared as the precious metal was heated in the crucibles before being poured into the ingot-making moulds. ...

— The Silver Canyon - A Tale of the Western Plains • George Manville Fenn

... ingot moulds, standing upon cars, and then transferred to the mould stripper; afterwards the ingots were weighed and sent to the soaking-pit furnaces. After a "wash heat" the ingots, or blooms, entered the rolls, and were drawn and sized in shape to fill orders ...

— The Harris-Ingram Experiment • Charles E. Bolton

Words linked to "Ingot" : metal bar, pig, bullion, block of metal, block