Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun open-hearth_furnace

1 sense of open-hearth furnace

Sense 1
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)
       => furnace -- (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)