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A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.

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  1. n. A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.
  2. n. The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.
  3. n. A pond of water for salt works.
  4. n. A puddle or dirty pool.
  5. n. an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
  6. n. a well or other hole in which water has collected
  7. n. a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
  8. A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metalon its first fusion. Ray.
  9. n:100 n. an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine n. a well or other hole in which water has collected