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Webster 1913 Edition

Ingot

In′got

,
Noun.
[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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ingot

IN'GOT

,
Noun.
A mass or wedge of gold or silver cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought metal.

Definition 2024

ingot

ingot

English

Noun

ingot ‎(plural ingots)

  1. 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.

Translations

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

ingot m

  1. ingot (a solid block of more or less pure metal)

Etymology

From Middle English ingot ‎(“something poured in”), from Old English *ingot, ingyte ‎(“a pouring in, infusion, inspiration”), from Proto-Germanic *in ‎(“in”) + *gutaz, *gutiz ‎(“gush, flow”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną ‎(“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- ‎(“to pour”), equivalent to in- +‎ gote or in- +‎ yote. Cognate with German Einguss ‎(“in-pouring, sprue”), Swedish ingjut ‎(“in-pouring”), Dutch ingieten ‎(“to pour in”), Scots gote ‎(“drain, ditch, gutter”), Swedish göt ‎(“ingot”). More at gote, goit, yote.

Alternative etymology derives Middle English ingot from ingoten ‎(“poured in”), from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan ‎(“to pour in, fill”), from the same Proto-Germanic base as above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪŋɡət/, /iŋɡəʔ/

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