Look up: Chafery


  1. Chafery
    Chaf'er·y noun [ See Chafe , transitive verb ] (Iron Works) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/50

  2. Chafery
    • (v. t.) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/chafery/

  3. Chafery
    A chafery is a variety of hearth used in ironmaking for reheating a bloom of iron, in the course of its being drawn out into a bar of wrought iron. The equivalent term for a bloomery was string hearth, except in 17th century Cumbria, where the terminology was that of the finery forge. A finery forg...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chafery

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