Glossary entry

Swedish term or phrase:

osmundsmedja

English translation:

osmund forge

Added to glossary by Michele Fauble
Mar 16, 2008 19:15
16 yrs ago
Swedish term

osmundsmedja

Swedish to English Tech/Engineering Metallurgy / Casting
Context:

Lekebruket grundades av hertig Karl 1572 och omfattade masugn, osmundsmedjor och gjuteri för främst krigsmaterial.
Proposed translations (English)
3 osmund forge
Change log

Mar 17, 2008 15:32: Michele Fauble changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/556485">Cristian Iscrulescu's</a> old entry - "osmundsmedja"" to ""osmund forge""

Discussion

Sofia Lauffs Mar 16, 2008:
I have no idea what this would be in English, but you find the esplanation of what it is in SAOB if you do a search on osmund
http://g3.spraakdata.gu.se/saob/

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osmund forge

The traditional osmund forge was energetically opposed; the finished product should instead be bar iron, and the responsibility for this element in the long ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=157181955X...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-03-16 21:20:56 GMT)
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Osmond iron (also spelt osmund and also called osborn) was wrought iron made by a particular process. This is associated with the first European production of cast iron in furnaces such as Lapphyttan in Sweden.[1]

Osmond iron was made by melting pig iron in a hearth rather narrower and deeper than a typical finery in an English finery forge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmond_process

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