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CHAFERY

Volume 3 · 79 words · 1778 Edition

in the iron-works, the name of one of the two principal forges. The other is called the finery. When the iron has been brought at the finery into what is called an ancony, or square mass, hammered into a bar in its middle, but with its two ends rough, the business to be done at the chafery is the reducing the whole to the same shape, by hammering down these rough ends to the shape of the middle part.