Norman: alternatives and connections

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as…

An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wro…

A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.

A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.

Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and…

Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.

A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, sto…

An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and mangane…

An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.

Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a t…

A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.