Smelt Definition

smĕlt
smelted, smelting, smelts
verb
To undergo fusing or smelting.
Webster's New World
To melt or fuse (ore, etc.) so as to separate impurities from pure metal.
Webster's New World
To melt or fuse. Used of ores.
American Heritage
To refine or extract (metal) in this way.
Webster's New World

Smell.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun

Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

Wiktionary
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.
Webster's New World
Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Smelt

Noun

Singular:
smelt
Plural:
smelts

Origin of Smelt

  • Dutch or Low German smelten from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German mel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Variant of the stem of Old English meltan (“to melt"), cognate with Dutch smelten and German schmelzen.

    From Wiktionary

  • From very early Middle English smel; likely to derive from Old English, but not recorded.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English mel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English smelt.

    From Wiktionary

Smelt Sentence Examples

  • He smelt strongly of rum.

  • They also weave cloth, make pottery and smelt iron.

  • The New York fisheries of Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Niagara and St Lawrence rivers yielded products in 1903 valued at $187,198 and consisting largely of pikeperch, herring, catfish, bullheads and sturgeon, and in 1902 there were commercial fisheries in sixteen interior lakes and rivers which yielded muscallonge, smelt, bullheads, pickerel, pike-perch and several other varieties having a total value of $87,897.

  • There are large quantities of salmon in the lower Columbia river, in Gray's and Willapa harbours, and in Puget Sound; oyster fisheries in Gray's and Willapa harbours and in Puget Sound; cod, perch, flounders, smelt, herring and sardines in these and other salt waters.

  • The right of natives to smelt iron and the question of compensation for any other existing mining industry or for surface disturbance was left to the discretion of government.

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