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What is a chafery?

What is a chafery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
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That employed two different hearths, a finery hearth for finishing the iron and a chafery hearth for reheating it in the course of drawing the bloom out into a bar.
In order to do this, he had to reheat the iron, for which he used the chafery.
The finery always burnt charcoal, but the chafery could be fired with mineral coal, since its impurities would not harm the iron when it was in the solid state.
The forge had two kinds of hearths, the finery to finish the product and the chafery to reheat the bloom that was the raw material of the process.
The open hearths of finery and chafery are surmounted each by a huge chimney.

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