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smeltery

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

noun

  • smelteries
    plural
  1. smelter.


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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

The iron and coal are utilized in steel smelteries and rolling-mills, glass-factories, sugar-refineries, and textile-mills.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway

The smelteries and rolling-mills are built at places where the materials are most conveniently hauled.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway

He created a Board of Mines, established smelteries, and the day came when, instead of going abroad for its munitions of war, Sweden had for its customers half Europe.

From Hero Tales of the Far North by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

There is no freight to pay, no waiting for assays or analyses, and no settlements with mills or smelteries.

From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. Hoskin

A limited supply of steel is also made, the industry being protected by the great distance from the Eastern smelteries.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway

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