smelt
smelt (smelt)
noun pl. smelts or smelt
any of various fishes (order Salmoniformes); esp., any of a family (Osmeridae) of small, silvery, salmonoid food fishes found in northern seas or lakes: most run up rivers to spawn
Etymology: ME < OE, akin to Norw smelt, whiting, Du smelt, Ger schmelte, sand eel
smelt (smelt)
transitive verb
- to melt or fuse (ore, etc.) so as to separate impurities from pure metal
- to refine or extract (metal) in this way
Etymology: MDu or MLowG smelten, akin to Ger schmelzen < IE *(s)mel-, to crush, grind fine > melt, malt
intransitive verb
to undergo fusing or smelting
smelt (smelt)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
Brit. smell
Object
- furnace: Remains of these smelting furnaces were found among the slag pieces.
- ore: Methods of raising and smelting ore are of interest.
- iron: The invention of huge blast furnaces, capable of smelting iron, was the first step toward making of the new weapons of war.
- mill: There were two types of hearths found in smelting mills.
- metal: Just as with iron, smelting the metal from the ore required a furnace.
- plant: The existing power station supplies electricity directly to the metal smelting plant Anglesey Aluminum in Holyhead.
Preposition: on
- spot: Ironstone within a small outcrop of the Lower Greensand at Seend was formerly quarried and the ore smelted on the spot.
Modifying Another Word
- then: Matte is an extremely rare find because normally it needs to be roasted again and then smelted to produce impure copper.
- first: No person could keep ' first smelting ' tin for more than 14 days unless it had been officially stamped.
- also: Now, however, we have reason to believe that secondary smelting also took place in the Phorades workshop.
- down: Aluminum is smelted down and used to make new aluminum products.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- down: The flywheel suffered a far worse fate - being sold for scrap to the British Iron & Steel Corporation at Bedford and smelted down.
Present participle complement
- use: This could produce 20 to 30 times more iron than the previous method of smelting using bloomeries.
Preposition: in
- furnace: The ore was then crushed with stones ready for smelting in granite furnaces fired with wood.
- area: It is believed that iron ore has been mined and smelted in the area since Norman times.
Preposition: of
- ore: The smelting of the ore had a dramatic effect on the countryside.
- iron: The first great impulse given to Birmingham was the substitution of coal for wood in the smelting of iron.
- metal: The mining, processing and smelting of metals, has left a legacy of pollution, despoilation and hazards throughout the orefield.
- copper: The smelting of copper from the sulfide ore, a bright green and very soft mineral, was demonstrated.
Preposition: from
- ore: It may have been the first metal smelted from ore.
