bloom

¹bloom

noun \ˈblüm\

Definition of BLOOM

1

: a mass of wrought iron from the forge or puddling furnace

2

: a bar of iron or steel hammered or rolled from an ingot

Origin of BLOOM

Middle English blome lump of metal, from Old English blōma

First Known Use: before 12th century

Other Metals and Metallurgy Terms

assay, bullion, ductile, ingot, malleable, patina, plate, temper, tensile

Rhymes with BLOOM

boom, broom, brume, combe, cwm, doom, flume, fume, gloom, glume, groom, khoum, loom, neume, plume, rheum, room, spume, tomb, toom, vroom, whom, womb, zoom