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/ˈfɝnɪs/ · noun
An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics..
Plans for the next phase include furnaces capable of inert atmospheres and partial vacuums.
HVAC services include furnace maintenance.
The busy kitchen became a sweltering furnace.
forged in the furnace of fierce competition
For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to paſſe this daye.
For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them.
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Furnace means An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics..
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Plans for the next phase include furnaces capable of inert atmospheres and partial vacuums.
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