burning house

English

Noun

burning house (plural burning houses)

  1. The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulfur and arsenic from the pyrites.

References

1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering

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