Blast
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- A violent gust of wind.
- A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
- Quotations
- 1957: Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146.
- Quotations
- An explosion.
- A loud, sudden sound.
- A blast from a trumpet.
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See also
- BLAST (journal), the journal of the Vorticism movement, published in 1914 and 1915
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