noun
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a person engaged in smelting
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Also called: smeltery. an industrial plant in which smelting is carried out
Etymology
Origin of smelter
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English; smelt 1 + -er 1
Example Sentences
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In between, in 2024, Century won a $500 million Energy Department grant made under Biden-era infrastructure-funding programs to build a state-of-the-art smelter in the Ohio or Mississippi river basins.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
It bought a majority stake in an aluminum recycling plant in Minnesota and started scouting locations for a smelter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Holly smelter in South Carolina, which opened in 1980, is the country’s newest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Farther away, at the Glogow smelter, two workers in protective suits, armed with long lances, open huge furnaces where the ore is melted.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
His invention, it turned out, could also cleanse noxious vapors and particulates from smelter effluent, coal particles from mine air, and much more.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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