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rabble

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rabble
an iron tool or mechanical device for stirring, mixing, or skimming a molten charge in a roasting furnace

rabble [′rabĀ·əl]
(metallurgy)
An iron bar for skimming the bath in a smelting or refining furnace or for stirring the ore in a roasting furnace either manually or mechanically.


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Life is a well of delight; but where the rabble also drink, there all fountains are poisoned.
Had the acute-angled rabble been all, without exception, absolutely destitute of hope and of ambition, they might have found leaders in some of their many seditious outbreaks, so able as to render their superior numbers and strength too much even for the wisdom of the Circles.
"Up there is the rabble of the wood, continued she, pointing to several laths which were fastened before a hole high up in the wall; "that's the rabble; they would all fly away immediately, if they were not well fastened in.
 
 
 
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