PIG IRON • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Pig iron

... booklet to the other, "I have here the plans for a new method of making steel from pig iron. The Bessemer method, we'll call it. The principle involved is the oxidation of the impurities in the iron by blowing ...

— Adaptation • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... be discontinued; in that case the woods used for fuel would stand uncut, and the tanners be deprived of oak bark sufficient for the continuance and support of their occupation. They nevertheless owned, that should the duty be removed from pig iron only, no such consequence could be apprehended; because, should the number of furnaces be lessened, that of forges would be increased. This was likewise the plea urged in divers remonstrances by masters of iron-works, gentlemen, and freeholders, who had ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett