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Smelt
01
small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
Grammatical Information
animacy status
animal
Composition
Simple
countable
plural form
smelts
02
small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
to smelt
01
to extract metal from its ore by heating and melting it in a furnace
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
action verb
regular
present tense
smelt
3rd person singular
smelts
present participle
smelting
past simple
smelted
past participle
smelted
Examples
The workers smelt ore to produce iron in the foundry.
Lexical Tree
smeltery
smelt
