(n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The post-breakfast gathering of guests, dressed in their hunting finery would meet front of house to witness the Prince of Wales assign the "male gun" position and partner for the day's shooting.
(2) Neighbours, however, were happy to pay tribute to him and recalled the sight of him dressed in his finery heading off for his wedding.
(3) "No one would immediately size you up when you walked in the door, so gay men would drop in without having to be done up in our finery," says Tony, a long-term regular.
(4) The ecclesiastical finery is accessorised with chinos and a pair of black and grey-checked slip-on trainers, worn without socks.
(5) At the beginning the suitors in their straw-boater finery dithered, ecstatic when Sharapova, dragging them into her vortex of suffering, would win a point, or save one, through the sheer force of her will, and then cooed with equal ardour for Bouchard, rising from their seats when she unleashed a terrifying forehand to scorch the lines.
(6) The traditional (and pre-recorded) new year address, in which the president sits behind a desk and talks straight to camera amid the finery of the Élysée Palace, has become a set piece of French politics, intensely scrutinised for its ability to set the nation's mind at ease over the difficulties of the coming year.
(7) The preparations here today are part of the band's album launch extravaganza, two semi-secret shows for 3,000 people, that will be replicated in Los Angeles and Miami, with attendees requested to dress up in their finery, and for which tickets have been swapping hands for up to a rumoured $5,000 (£3,100).
Refinery
Definition:
(n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
(n.) A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, the presence on a refinery site of a carcinogen other than petroleum has not been ruled out, and further study is urged.
(2) Islamist militants have attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, as Iran raised the prospect of direct military intervention to protect Shia holy sites.
(3) Friess said that while producers will benefit most from the pipeline, refineries along the Gulf—which he described as the "most sophisticated refineries in the world"—will profit, too, because they'll be able to outbid other refining markets for Canadian crude.
(4) Hair arsenic analysis in people living in two locations near an ore smelter and a refinery indicated high-levels compared to those of individuals residing in nonpolluted areas.
(5) While there have been numerous epidemiology studies of refinery workers, no studies have been done on producing and pipeline workers.
(6) Grangemouth's refinery produces 210,000-barrels of oil per day, and was shut last week due to the industrial action that has gripped Grangemouth.
(7) Updated at 10.40pm BST 9.12pm BST In this handout photo provided by the USGS, A satellite view shows smoke billowing from the Baiji North refinery complex on June 18, 2014 in Baiji, about 130 miles north of Baghdad.
(8) The statement also confirms that the refinery arm isn't being shut down, but Ineos wants unions to agree not to hold future strike action.
(9) The south holds roughly 75% of Sudan's oil reserves, but the north has the refineries and pipelines, so logic dictates the two sides co-operate on mutual exploitation for oil.
(10) Comparison of the two schemes showed that OR job groups developed from administrative job histories were sometimes useful in classifying employees according to refinery exposures.
(11) The conciliation service was called in after around 3,000 workers at oil and power plants across the UK staged unofficial strikes in support of workers at the Lindsey refinery at North Killingholme.
(12) Workers at refineries and power stations in various parts of the UK walked out, some holding placards quoting the words of Gordon Brown: "British jobs for British workers".
(13) Scotland's biggest oil refinery remains shut despite Ineos's offer to restart it if Unite agreed not to strike for the rest of this year.
(14) The Iraqi who drove past the refinery on Thursday said the militants also manned checkpoints around the Beiji facility some 155 miles north of Baghdad, and that a huge fire in one of its tankers was raging.
(15) "Ineos have informed us that the refinery will stay open and the management wish to restart full operations as soon as possible.
(16) They say they will be employed at the same rates as British workers at the refinery and no "direct redundancies" are expected as a result because they are new jobs.
(17) About 800 workers led the nationwide action at the Lincolnshire refinery in scenes rarely seen in the UK since the 1980s.
(18) Just over two months after a report into the 2005 fatal explosion at BP's Texas City refinery pulled its punches on the subject, a new report is expected to land a glove bang on BP's nose.
(19) The refinery was working largely as usual, with steam pouring from vents on the complex of pipes, chimneys and girders which towers over the flatlands of the Humber estuary's south shore.
(20) A large plume of smoke rises from what is said to be Baiji oil refinery in Baiji, northern Iraq.