Meaning

3 senses
  1. A person employed to do smelting.

    He works as a smelter.

    an industrial plant for smelting

  2. A machine used to smelt metal.

    Throw the scrap in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it.

  3. A place where smelting is done.

    We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get some money for it.

Translations

4 languages

Forms

plural: smelters
Singularsmelter
Pluralsmelters

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an industrial plant for smelting:smeltery

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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