ingot
A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
A kind of
- block
Kinds of ingot
- pig
Related words
- ingotlike
- oxhide ingot
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "ingot" (mould for casting metal).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ingot” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.