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noun

Ingot n.

That in which metal is cast; a mold. (Obs.) "And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer."

A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. "Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine."

Ingot mold, a box or mold in which ingots are cast.

Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... replied Denham. Then in a few words he told the Colonel that we had discovered two shafts within the walls, as well as the old furnace-house and the ingot-moulds. ...

— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn

... obstacle, barricade, hindrance; shoal, sandbar, bank; ingot; lever, pole, rod; tribunal, ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... home occasionally, and Luzanne's father had a friend, Ingot by name, who was sometimes present. This man made himself almost unbearable at first; but Luzanne pulled Ingot up acridly, and he presently behaved well. Ingot disliked all men in better positions than himself, and was a ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... Every ingot underwent the scrutiny of the little Jew, who seemed to feel an epicurean delight in touching and testing these morsels of the glorious metal; and each one of them was replaced in the ...

— The Purcell Papers - Volume II. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... accomplished already, by several different modes of construction; and there are very many streets where the luxury of wood pavement, which wears very rapidly, cannot be afforded, and where macadamizing will not stand the wear and tear of the heavy traffic. The use of ingot steel, or very mild steel, for making tin-plates is now an established thing, and manufacturers are now taking this metal for making large tinned sheets up to seven by ...

— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various

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