a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
verb (used with object)
2.
to make ingots of; shape into ingots.
Origin: 1350–1400;Middle English: literally, (something) poured in, equivalent to in-in-1 + got(e) a stream, Old English*gota, akin to gēotan to flow; cognate with Germangiessen,Gothicgiutan,Old Norsegjōta to pour
late 14c., "mold in which metal is cast," probably from in- "in" + O.E. goten, pp. of geotan "to pour." Sense of "mass of cast metal" first attested 1423.