Meaning & use
smelt
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to extract metal from ore by heating and melting it
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Workers smelted the iron ore in a massive furnace.
Ancient civilizations learned to smelt copper thousands of years ago.
A note on using this word
'Smelt' is also the name of a small, oily fish, an entirely unrelated meaning.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
a small, silvery fish found in cold coastal and fresh waters
They caught a bucket of smelt off the pier.
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