Fettling
A puddler's term for preparing the puddling-furnace hearth with a mixture composed chiefly of old furnace-bottoms, crushed and mixed with tap-cinder and scales. See MILL-CINDER; MALLEABLE IRON; PUDDLE-STEEL.
Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.
A puddler's term for preparing the puddling-furnace hearth with a mixture composed chiefly of old furnace-bottoms, crushed and mixed with tap-cinder and scales. See MILL-CINDER; MALLEABLE IRON; PUDDLE-STEEL.