ingot

noun

A mass of metal, such as a bar or block, that is cast in a standard shape for convenient storage or shipment.

noun

A casting mold for metal.

noun

A mold into which to pour metals; an ingot-mold.

noun

A mass of metal cast in a mold.

noun

That in which metal is cast; a mold.

noun

A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.

noun

a box or mold in which ingots are cast.

noun

See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

noun

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.

noun

metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling