▪ I. bloomery1, -ary
(ˈbluːmərɪ)
Forms: 6–7 blomarie, 7–8 blomary, 7– bloomery, -ary.
[f. bloom n.2 + -ery, -ary.]
The first forge in an iron-works through which the metal passes after having been melted from the ore, and in which it is made into blooms.
| 1584–5 Act 27 Eliz. xix, Any maner of Yron Milles, Furnaces, Hammer, Finarie, Forge or Blomarie. 1672 Petty Pol. Anat. 374 There are in Ireland..above twenty forges and bloomeries. 1693 Lister in Phil. Trans. XVII. 866 Those Bars which are wrought out of a Loop, taken up out of the Finnery Harth, or second Forge, are much better Iron than those which are made in the Bloomary or first Harth. 1762 Eliot ibid. LIII. 56 It is wrought or smelted in a common bloomary. 1851 Turner Dom. Archit. II. Introd. 30 The bloomeries of Furness..were in full operation in the thirteenth century. 1866 Jevons Coal Quest. (ed. 2) 217 When the charcoal bloomary and forge gave place to the coke blast furnace. |
▪ II. bloomery2 nonce-wd.
[f. bloom n.1 + -ery.]
A collection or place full of blooms.
| 1832 J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 864 Leading you sometimes into a greenery of glade, and sometimes into a bloomery of sweet-briars. |