Thesaurus: furnace

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1. n. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
2. n. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
3. n. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
4. n. an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
5. n:100 n. an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.