Lexicographical Neighbors of Knobbling
Literary usage of Knobbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel by Bradley Stoughton (1911)
"The running-out fire is frequently used in connection with the charcoal finery,
known as the " knobbling fire," to produce knob- bled charcoal-iron, ..."
2. Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada by American Iron and Steel Institute (1890)
"Built in 1850 ; rebuilt in 1879 ; 20 single puddling furnaces, 4 Siemens and 5
coal heating furnaces, one scrap furnace, 4 knobbling fires, ..."
3. Directory to the Iron and Steel Works of the United States by American Iron and Steel Association (1892)
"Tennessee Rolling Mills, at Louisville, formerly called Kentucky Rolling Mill,
built in 1869 ; 14 single puddling furnaces, 6 beating furnaces, 12 knobbling ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"In stone cutting, a preliminary process ; usually the mere knocking off of pieces
projecting beyond the required dimensions. Called also knobbling ..."
5. The Mineral Industry (1899)
"The refinery fire and the knobbling furnace are 1 in .use to some extent in this
country, though it may seriously be questioned whether they «.re not simply ..."
6. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"The steel was usually produced in the knobbling fire, by stopping the process of
knobbling before the metal in the fire had reached a state ..."
7. Iron and Steel (a Pocket Encyclopedia): Including Allied Industries and Sciences by Hugh Philip Tiemann (1919)
"Iron produced by the knobbling process: see page dead: see page 113; (2) in the
cementation process: see page knobbling Fire ; Furnace; Process. ..."
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