#initial-load-header-loader { visibility: hidden!important; } #initial-load-content { visibility: visible!important; } .expandable .expandable-control { display: none!important; } .expandable .expandable-content { display: block!important; visibility: visible!important; max-height: none!important; height: auto!important; }

melter

[mel-ter]

|

noun

a person or thing that melts.

a person in charge of a steelmaking furnace.

Origin of melter

First recorded in 1525–35; melt¹ + -er¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for melter

Historical Examples of melter

The melter was a small tank through which ran a coil of steam pipes.
The Home of the Blizzard
Douglas Mawson
"You need not go up if you don't feel like it," said the melter.
The Iron Boys in the Steel Mills
James R. Mears
"It would serve the brute right if I killed him," roared the melter.
The Iron Boys in the Steel Mills
James R. Mears
"If he comes against us we'll make him alight and strip the 'tin' off his jacket to go to the melter's," said Nicholas.
The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6
Eugne Sue
Every melter and maker of wax from honeycombs shall put his mark on every piece of his wax to be sold.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.
S. A. Reilly