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bosh 1. the lower tapering portion of a blast furnace, situated immediately above the air-inlet tuyères 2. the deposit of siliceous material that occurs on the surfaces of vessels in which copper is refined 3. a water tank for cooling glass-making tools, etc bosh [bäsh] (metallurgy) Tapering lower portion of a blast furnace, from the blast holes of the hearth up to the maximum internal diameter at the bottom of the stack. Quartz deposited on the furnace lining during the smelting of copper ore. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They then fell upon each other's neck and wept scalding rills down each other's spine in token of their banishment to the Realm of Ineffable Bosh. He spoke of me all the time, in the blandest way, as "this prodigious giant," and "this horrible sky-towering monster," and "this tusked and taloned man-devour- ing ogre", and everybody took in all this bosh in the naivest way, and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statis- tics and me. Mother says all those sentimental ideas are bosh and I expect they are. |
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