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Ingot mold

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.]

  1. 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.
    --Chaucer.

  2. 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.
    --Sir W. Jones.

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

    Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

Usage examples of "ingot mold".

Molten aluminum flowed out into the ingot mold in a little stream.

Several sections of iron grating, what looked like an ingot mold, a wheel off a cart, a small box.