INGOT

ingot

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

ingot (plural ingots)

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.

Verb

ingot (third-person singular simple present ingots, present participle ingoting, simple past and past participle ingoted)

(transitive) To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.

Anagrams

• tigon, toing

Source: Wiktionary

In"got, n. Etym: [Prob. from AS. in in + geótan to pour: cf. F. linglot, LL. lingotus a mass of gold or silver, extended in the manner of a tongue, and G. einguss, LG. & OE. ingot ingot, a mold for casting metals in. See Found to cast, and cf. Linget, Lingot, Nugget.]

1. That in which metal is cast; a mold. [Obs.] And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer. Chaucer.

2. A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine. Sir W. Jones. Ingot mold, a box or mold in which ingots are cast.

– Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition