Ingot

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ingot \In"got\, n. [Prob. from AS. in in + ge['o]tan to pour:
     cf. F. linglot, LL. lingotus a mass of gold or silver,
     extended in the manner of a tongue, and G. einguss, LG. & OE.
     ingot ingot, a mold for casting metals in. See {Found} to
     cast, and cf. {Linget}, {Lingot}, {Nugget}.]
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     1. That in which metal is cast; a mold. [Obs.]
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              And from the fire he took up his matter
              And in the ingot put it with merry cheer. --Chaucer.
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     2. A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal,
        cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
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              Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine.   --Sir W.
                                                    Jones.
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     {Ingot mold}, a box or mold in which ingots are cast.
  
     {Ingot iron}. See {Decarbonized steel}, under {Decarbonize}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ingot
       n : a block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for
           convenient handling [syn: {metal bar}, {block of metal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "ingot":
     bar, billet, bullion, button, cast, casting, coin gold,
     coin silver, copper, gate, gold, gold nugget, nickel, nugget, pig,
     precious metals, regulus, rod, sheet metal, silver, slab, sow,
     stick, strip, yellow stuff