| dutch oven furnace | One of the earliest types of furnaces, having a large, rectangular box lined with firebrick (refractory) on the sides and top. Commonly used for burning wood. Heat is stored in the refractory and radiated to a conical fuel pile in the centre of the furnace. (05 Dec 1998) |
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| dutch | Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants. Dutch auction. See Auction. Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. <botany> Dutch clover, a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (E. Hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum. Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like. Dutch was formerly used for German. "Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains." (Fuller) Origin: D. Duitsch German; or G. Deutsch, orig, popular, national, OD. Dietsc, MHG. Diutsch, tiutsch, OHG. Diutisk, fr. Diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS. Peod, OS. Thiod, thioda, Goth. Piuda; cf. Lith. Tauta land, OIr. Tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick, Teutonic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| oven dry ton | An amount of wood that weighs 2,000 pounds at zero percent moisture content. (05 Dec 1998) |
| pernot furnace | A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, used in making steel. Origin: So called from Charles Pernot, its inventor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| muffle furnace | An electric furnace heated by direct transfer of heat from a resistant muffle, a dental furnace heated by a muffle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spreader stoker furnace | A furnace in which fuel is automatically or mechanically spread. Part of the fuel is burned in suspension. Large pieces fall on a grate. (05 Dec 1998) |
| dental furnace | <dentistry> A furnace used to eliminate the wax pattern from the investment mold prior to casting in metal, a furnace used to fuse and glaze dental porcelains. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fuel-cell furnace | A variation of the Dutch oven design, that usually incorporates a primary and secondary combustion chamber (cell). The primary chamber is a vertical refractory-lined cylinder with a grate at the bottom in which combustion is partially completed. Combustion is completed in the secondary chamber. (05 Dec 1998) |
| furnace | An enclosed chamber or container used to burn biomass in a controlled manner to produce heat for space or process heating. (05 Dec 1998) |