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smelt·er

 (smĕl′tər)
n.
1.
a. An apparatus for smelting.
b. also smelt·er·y (smĕl′tə-rē) pl. smelt·er·ies An establishment for smelting.
2. One who is engaged in the smelting industry.
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smelter

(ˈsmɛltə)
n
1. (Metallurgy) a person engaged in smelting
2. (Metallurgy) Also called: smeltery an industrial plant in which smelting is carried out
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smelt•er

(ˈsmɛl tər)

n.
1. a person or thing that smelts.
2. a place where ores are smelted.
[1425–75]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.smelter - an industrial plant for smeltingsmelter - an industrial plant for smelting  
industrial plant, plant, works - buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
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Translations

smelter

[ˈsmeltəʳ] Nhorno m de fundición
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

smelter

n (= furnace)Schmelzhütte f, → Schmelzerei f; (= person)Schmelzer(in) m(f)
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smelter

[ˈsmɛltəʳ] nfonderia
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References in classic literature ?
Then they came again to the Sacramento, where the great smelters of Kennett explained the destruction of the vegetation.
Here too dwelt those famous smelters and welders who had made the Bordeaux steel the most trusty upon earth, and could give a temper to lance or to sword which might mean dear life to its owner.
We had called in at Selby's Smelter one afternoon, while on patrol work, when all unknown to us our opportunity happened along.
The high wind and big seas of San Pablo Bay had been too much for them; all hands were sick, nobody knew anything or could do anything; and so they had run in to the smelter either to desert the yacht or to get somebody to bring it to Benicia.
With the wind then blowing, we could sail the yacht into Benicia in a couple of hours, have several more hours ashore, and come back to the smelter on the evening train.
I could make out the Selby Smelter on the Contra Costa shore and the Mare Island lighthouse.
Wemmick presented to me as a smelter who kept his pot always boiling, and who would melt me anything I pleased - and who was in an excessive white-perspiration, as if he had been trying his art on himself.
And when the Setliffe crowd shook down Idaho, and reorganized the smelter trust, and roped in the rest of the landscape, and put through the big hydraulic scheme at Twin Pines, why I sure got squeezed.
Near the iron-mine, which is on the mainland, is a smelter, and on the eastern shore of Anoroc, a well equipped ship-yard.
And does it not also control copper, to say nothing of running a smelter trust as a little side enterprise?
China's top copper smelters on Thursday lowered their floor treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for the third quarter by 24.7 percent, two people familiar with the matter said, with one adding smelters will consider cutting output if low rates persist.
Perhaps more significant than the future promise is that China's zinc smelters are sufficiently worried about the market to have held June's meeting in the first place.