pig iron

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Etymology

pig in the sense “oblong block of cast metal”.

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Noun

pig iron (usually uncountable, plural pig irons)

1. A type of crude, brittle iron shaped like a block, unsuitable for working but suitable for casting, commonly used as an industrial raw material.

   Synonym: crude iron

   • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

     We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.

Translations

type of crude iron

Bulgarian: чугун на слитъци (čugun na slitǎci) Catalan: lingot d'alt forn m Chinese: Mandarin: 生鐵 / 生铁 (zh) (shēngtiě) Esperanto: krudfero Finnish: takkirauta (fi) French: fonte brute f German: Roheisen (de) n Greek: αργός σίδηρος m (argós sídiros) Hindi: कच्चा लोहा m (kaccā lohā) Indonesian: besi gubal Irish: muciarann m Italian: ghisa grezza Japanese: 銑鉄 (ja) (せんてつ, sentetsu) Korean: 선철 (seoncheol) Macedonian: су́рово же́лезо n (súrovo žélezo) Malay: besi jongkong Polish: surówka (pl) f Portuguese: ferro-gusa m, gusa f Russian: переде́льный чугу́н m (peredélʹnyj čugún) Spanish: arrabio (es) m, hierro colado Swedish: tackjärn (sv) n Tagalog: ilik-bakal Welsh: haearn crai m, haearn hwch m

See also

• cast iron
• pig tin
• puddled bar

References

• “pig iron”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.