loup
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- 1A mass of iron in a pasty, semi-solid state gathered into a ball, ready to be worked under a trip hammer or through rolls.
Like kneading a warm lump of clay to drive out air bubbles before shaping it.
Workers dragged the white-hot loup to the trip hammer for its first squeezing.
The forge turned out several loups a day, each beaten into shape while still soft.
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Note
A word from the ironworks, borrowed from German Luppe, "a lump of iron." The mass comes out of a bloomery or puddling furnace still spongy and full of trapped slag. Hammering or rolling squeezes that slag out and welds the iron into a workable bar, so the loup is a stage in the process, not a finished product. The plural is regular: loups.
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Origin
Borrowed from German "Luppe," meaning a lump of iron.