How to pronounce smelt

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What smelt means

verb

To melt ore to get the metal out of it

In a sentence: Long ago, villagers built clay furnaces to smelt iron from reddish rocks.

Where it comes from: It comes from smelten, a word in old forms of Dutch and German meaning to melt.

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