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   smelt

   /smɛlt/

   verb

   • 1. extract (metal) from its ore by a process involving heating and melting: "coal was used to smelt the steel for the tinplate"
   • ▪ extract a metal from (ore) by smelting: "the ores are smelted in a blast furnace"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German smelten; related to the verb melt.

   Derivatives

   • 1. smeltery noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

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   • M

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