Pernot furnace

English

Etymology

After its inventor, Charles Pernot.

Noun

Pernot furnace (plural Pernot furnaces)

A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, used in making steel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Pernot furnace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)