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noun

Ingot n.

That in which metal is cast; a mold. (Obs.) "And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer."

A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. "Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine."

Ingot mold, a box or mold in which ingots are cast.

Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

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"Ingot" Quotes from Famous Books

... silver fell into the "crosselet." Then the canon said they would both go together and fetch chalk, and a pail of water, for he would pour out the silver he had made in the form of an ingot. They locked the door, and took the key with them. On returning, the canon formed the chalk into a mould, and poured the contents of the crucible into it. Then ...

— The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry • M. M. Pattison Muir

... laid under contribution. This brass being for the most part soft and yellow, I made it extra hard by the addition of a due proportion of tin. It was then capable of retaining a fine edge. When I had exhausted the stock of old brass, I had to buy old copper, or new, in the form of ingot or tile copper, and when melted I added to it one-eighth of its weight of pure tin, which yielded the strongest alloy of the two metals. When cast into any required form this was a treat to work, so sound and close was the grain, and so ...

— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth

... in a few words he told the Colonel that we had discovered two shafts within the walls, as well as the old furnace-house and the ingot-moulds. ...

— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn

... "beans;" and it seems not improbable that the origin of the term as applied to money may be traced to the practice in the early Indian coinage of stamping small lumps of metal to give them authentic currency. It can only be a coincidence that the Roman term for an ingot of gold was "massa" (Pliny, L. xxxiii. c. 19). These Singhalese massa were probably similar to the "punched coins," having rude stamps without effigies, and rarely even with letters, which have been turned up at Kanooj, Oujein, and other places in Western ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... he returned to the excavation and scooped out yet another collection. This time there could be no mistake. Nature's own alchemy had fashioned a veritable ingot. There were small lumps in the ore which would need alloy at the mint before they could be issued as sovereigns, so free ...

— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy

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