PIG IRONとは意味・読み方・使い方

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語源

From pig (“animal of the family Suidae, especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus; oblong block of cast metal (iron or lead)”) +‎ iron. It appears that in early use sow was used to refer to larger blocks of smelted metal and pig smaller ones. From the 17th century, the words were adapted to newer methods of iron smelting, with pig used to describe blocks formed from molten iron served from the central channel (runner) of a pig bed which were said to resemble a litter of piglets nursing from a sow.

発音

(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɪɡ aɪən/
(General American) IPA: /ˈpɪɡ ˌaɪ(ə)ɹn/

名詞

pig iron (usually uncountable, plural pig irons)

(metallurgy, uncountable) A brittle, impure form of iron produced by smelting iron ore which is often shaped into blocks; it is unsuitable for working but suitable for casting, and so is commonly used as an industrial raw material; (countable) a sample of such iron.

Synonym: crude iron

Hypernyms: iron (broad sense) < metal

Hyponym: grundy

Coordinate terms: cast iron, wrought iron
- 1945 January and February, a former pupil [pseudonym], “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:
  
  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.
(cooking, countable, obsolete) An iron plate which is hung between a piece of meat and the fire used to cook it to prevent the meat from burning if the fire is too hot.

Synonym: pig plate

参考

puddled bar

参照

^ “pig iron, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2025; “pig iron, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “pig, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2025; “pig, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.


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