furnaceman

plural furnacemen

1. One who operates a furnace in metalworking.

   Cannon balls, thought to have been used at the Battle of Trafalgar, were made at Taynuilt, and the local furnacemen erected the first public memorial to Lord Nelson after his victory at Trafalgar, in October 1805.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 373

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   We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.

   1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14