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Pig bed   /pɪg bɛd/   Listen
noun
Pig  n.  
1.
The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke."
2.
(Zool.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.
3.
An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.
4.
One who is hoggish; a greedy person. (Low)
Masked pig. (Zool.) See under Masked.
Pig bed (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs.
Pig iron, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4.
Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.
A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. (Colloq.)






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"Pig bed" Quotes from Famous Books



... "That's the pig bed out there," Mrs. Maitland explained, kindly; "see, Nannie? Those cross-trenches in the sand they call sows; the little hollows on the side are the pigs. When they tap the furnace, the melted iron will flow ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland



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