furnaceman

Etymology

From furnace + -man.

furnaceman means one who operates a furnace in metalworking. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

One who operates a furnace in metalworking.“We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.”