Saggers
Cast-iron boxes in which articles of cast iron are packed, along with red-hematite ore, or smithy scales, to be converted into malleable cast iron by a process of decarbonization in the annealing-furnace. See MALLEABLE CAST IRON.
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.
Cast-iron boxes in which articles of cast iron are packed, along with red-hematite ore, or smithy scales, to be converted into malleable cast iron by a process of decarbonization in the annealing-furnace. See MALLEABLE CAST IRON.