What is "furnaces"

Usage examples of "furnaces".

This winter there had been enough wood for the furnaces, and for hot water in the bathhouse, unlike the first winter on the Roof of the World.

There were traces of gold about, of course, and furnaces to heat up to two thousand degrees and so forth, but after all Goldfinger was a jeweller and a smelter in a small way, and all this was perfectly above-board.

Facing him were the open mouths of two blast furnaces, their fires now drawn.

Those sheets would already be in the furnaces at Coppet, ready to be modelled into seventy chairs for a Mecca Constellation.

He could smell the smoke from squat, beehive-shaped kilns, communal electric furnaces used round the clock.