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.
Verb
To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.
Origin
From Middle English ingot, from Old English *ingot, ingyte, from Proto-Germanic *in + *gutaz, *gutiz, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-, equivalent to in- + gote or in- + yote. Cognate with German Einguss, Swedish ingjut, Dutch ingieten, Scots gote, Swedish göt. More at gote, goit, yote.
Alternative etymology derives Middle English ingot from ingoten, from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan, from the same Proto-Germanic base as above.
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