Smelt

Noun

 * 1) a family of small anadromous fish common in the North American Great Lakes

Verb
smelt



Noun

 * 1) Production of metal from ore; or, any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
 * 2) * 1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, ISBN 0471020729, 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.
 * 1) * 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 […]
 * 1) * 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 […]
 * 1) * 2002, Jenny Moore, “Who Lights the Fire? Gender and the Energy of Production”, in Moira Donald and Linda Hurcombe (eds.), Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312223986, page 130,
 * Women are allowed to play some small part in the smelt if they are breastfeeding or post-menopausal (van der Merwe and Avery, 1988).

Verb

 * 1) to fuse two things into one, especially when involving ores; to meld

Thesaurus
carve, chisel, colliquate, convert, cultivate, defrost, extract, flux, fuse, grow, harvest, machine, melt, melt down, mill, mine, process, pump, raise, rear, refine, render, run, thaw, unfreeze

Etymology 1
From smelt:.

Etymology 2
From very early smel:; likely to derive from, but not recorded.

Etymology 3
Variant of the stem of meltan:.

Noun

 * French:
 * German: Stint


 * Russian:


 * : eperlano

Verb

 * Dutch: ,


 * Dutch:

Noun

 * German:, verhütten

Verb

 * German: verschmelzen


 * Spanish: ,


 * : fundir

Anagrams

 * melts

Noun

 * 1) melt