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Charcoal produces the high temperatures needed for smelting iron. The use of reddy is unclear here (some readers see it as "the iron [that is] ready at Widders Dump") but from later context it seems that the iron reddy is a place where iron is both heated red and made ready—i.e. a forge. (MB concurs: "The iron reddy is a smelter where old iron is melted down to make it ready for new uses.")

Widders Dump: See Places.