fagot iron

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fagot iron (countable and uncountable, plural fagot irons)

  1. (dated) Iron produced by welding together fagots of iron bars or rods, typically used in forging or refining processes.
    • 1859, J. Peter Lesley, The Iron Manufacturer's Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States: With Maps and Plates, Wiley, page 152:
      29. Bloomingdale Bloomery on the Pequannock river, five miles above Pompton and thirteen miles northwest of the New York and Erie railroad Paterson station, owned by Martin J. Ryerson, Bloomingdale P.O, Passaic county New Jersey, was built about 1800, rebuilt in 1839 and again in 1841, has 4 fires and 2 hammers, driven by water, and made in 1855 255 tons of bars and fagot iron for shafts and boiler plate, out of Ringwood ore.
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