Smelt

Quick meaning: Smelt is a noun meaning simple past and past participle of smell.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of smell.

More Meanings

1. Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
2. Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
3. Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
4. To produce metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
5. (obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.

Example Sentences

These direct Men, they are no Men of fashion, Talk what you will, this is a very Smelt

1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405, The green liquor, ie, [sic] the solution obtained on dissolving the smelt, contains an insoluble residue called dregs, which gives it a dark green appearance.

1996, Arthur J. Wilson, The Living Rock: The Story of Metals Since Earliest Time and Their Impact on Civilization, When the smelt was complete the crucible could be lifted out and the metal poured directly into the moulds, thus avoiding the need to break it up and remelt […]

2000, Julian Henderson, The Science and Archaeology of Materials: An Investigation of Inorganic Materials, […] can vary in different positions in the furnace and during the smelt. Furnaces are unlikely to survive the smelts; all that often remains on metal production sites is just furnace bases and broken fragments of furnaces […]

Word Forms

• smelts
• smelting
• smelted

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