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smeltery

American  
[smel-tuh-ree] / ˈsmɛl tə ri /

noun

smelteries plural
  1. smelter.


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noun

Etymology

Origin of smeltery

First recorded in 1805–15; smelt 1 + -ery

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To old steel hands used to the authoritative roar of a huge blast furnace, the new plant that began operating this week at Niagara Falls, Ont., neither looked nor sounded like an iron smeltery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, for the first time, a smeltery can work iron ore over with the same thoroughness that an oil refinery uses to squeeze every last product out of crude oil.

From Time Magazine Archive

I visited a huge smeltery not long ago, and saw how gold and silver were separated from their ores.

From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various

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