Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun blast_furnace

1 sense of blast furnace

Sense 1
blast furnace -- (a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air)
       => furnace -- (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)