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Definition of Boshes
1. bosh [n] - See also: bosh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boshes
Literary usage of Boshes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Those of the older construction may be described u being made up of-two truncated
coni-s placed base to base, the greatest diameter (the boshes) being about ..."
2. The Manufacture of Iron, in All Its Various Branches: Including a by Frederick Overman (1854)
"Furnaces double, with iron air boshes; charge 750 pounds, and five heats in twelve
hours.—-The magnetic ores of Missouri, and the red oxides of Arkansas ..."
3. The Mining Magazine (1856)
"At the Dowlais works there are boshes at 68, 74, 76, 78, and 81 ; the steepest
... The charcoal furnace hearths are constructed with boshes at 76 to 78°. ..."
4. A Treatise on Metallurgy: Comprising Mining, and General and Particular by Frederick Overman (1865)
"In cases of doubt, it is preferable to have the boshes too narrow, rather than
too wide; but we must be aware, that nothing has more influence upon the ..."
5. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1898)
"Cooling Plates for Blast-Furnace boshes.—Illustrations are published * of an
arrangement of the pipes for supplying water to the cooling plates built into ..."
6. The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain: Theoretically and Practically Considered by William Truran (1863)
"But when other ores are to be smelted, their character and that of the fuel will
have an important bearing on the form of the boshes as well as that of the ..."
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