| stithy | an anvil; a forge. | |
| mitis | wrought iron that has been cast. | |
| kish | (metall.) slag or dross on molten metal. | |
| roke | (metall.) a scale-filled scratch on an ingot. | |
| tough cake | a soft, malleable form of refined copper. | |
| tin pest | the allotropic modification of tin at low temperatures, which causes it to powder. | |
| scoria | a cinderlike lava; the refuse left after smelting metal. (and |scorify|.) | |
| waste waste | "tin plate too defective to be acceptable, even after recoating." | |
| Wollaston wire | exceedingly fine wire, formed by encasing a wire in another metal, drawing the composite to a fine wire, and stripping off the outer metal. |