red-short

The loss of metal is consequently very large, but oxides of iron being left in the metal the blooms are invariably "red short."

In practice, blooms made by this process have been so red-short that they could not be hammered at all.

He was a very stout man, and had a red short cloak over him, and bright yellow hair like silk that fell over his shoulders.

Oxygen, probably dissolved in the iron as ferrous oxide FeO, also makes the metal red-short.