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What is a bloomery?

What is a bloomery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A forge in which wrought iron is made straight from ore.
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So apparently this was a true blast furnace and not merely a bloomery.
This pumping of airstream in with bellows is known as cold blast, and it increases the fuel efficiency of the bloomery and improves yield.
This was the first time he had been thus summoned since that unlucky winter evening at bloomery Gap.
In 1695, John Hathaway, who settled in nearby Freetown, in company with other citizens, set up a bloomery known as Chartley Iron Works on Stony Brook.
When a Catalan forge is employed in making blooms, it is called a bloomery.
The final version of this kind of bloomery hearth survived in Spain until the 19th century.

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