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noun

Ingot n.

That in which metal is cast; a mold. (Obs.) "And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer."

A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. "Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine."

Ingot mold, a box or mold in which ingots are cast.

Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

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Etymology of 'Ingot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ingot" Quotes from Famous Books

... the plains were now illumined, and watched with wonder by the roving Apaches, when the great silver furnaces glowed and roared as the precious metal was heated in the crucibles before being poured into the ingot-making moulds. ...

— The Silver Canyon - A Tale of the Western Plains • George Manville Fenn

... ingot moulds, standing upon cars, and then transferred to the mould stripper; afterwards the ingots were weighed and sent to the soaking-pit furnaces. After a "wash heat" the ingots, or blooms, entered the rolls, and were drawn and sized in shape to fill orders ...

— The Harris-Ingram Experiment • Charles E. Bolton

... the execution it is safe to disregard, because we know that it was conducted in the usual form and in the presence of many spectators and a considerable body of troops. One fact shines out from the distracting confusion of that morning, which will be cherished to the latest posterity as a precious ingot of the moral treasure of the American people. When asked if he had anything to say, Captain ...

— Revolutionary Heroes, And Other Historical Papers • James Parton

... when Guevara enlarged upon the power of his rival and urged him to accept his friendly offers. But the troops, on the other hand, listened with greedy ears to the accounts of Cortes, his frank and liberal manners, and the wealth of his camp, where the meanest soldier could stake his ingot and his chain of gold at play, and where all revelled in plenty. And when Father Olmedo arrived, his eloquence and his gifts soon created a party in the interest of Cortes. This could not go on so secretly as not to excite the suspicions of Narvaez, and the worthy ...

— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang

... we have no gain that is not loss, no acquisition but surrender, "exchange" which may perhaps be "no robbery," though quantity does seem a poor substitute for quality in matters of beauty. I wish I had lived in the times when the ore lay in the ingot (and had been one of the few who owned a nugget), instead of in these times of universal gold-leaf, glitter without weight, and shining shallowness of mere surface. Vigor is better than refinement, and to create ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

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