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smelt-
the stem of smelt v. in combination, as smelt-furnace, -house [Du. smelthuis, G. schmelzhaus], -mill, places where smelting is carried on.
1684Phil. Trans. XVII. 741 When the Smelt-Houses were up at Keswick,..this Work was left good. 1771Ann. Reg. 90 Destroying the wear of Mr. Smith's smelt-mill. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. vi, Those jingling sheet-iron Aprons, wherein your otherwise half-naked Vulcans hammer and smelt in their smelt-furnace. 1860Indenture, The cottage, shop, and buildings formerly a smelthouse. |