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smelted
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smelt \Smelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smelted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Smelting .] [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. sm["a]lta, D. smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG. smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. ?????. Cf. Enamel , Melt , Mute , v. i., Smalt ...
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vb. (en-past of: smelt )
Usage examples of smelted.
The stone my grandfather found was more than twice that size, and by the time he smelted it, he was left with just enough metal for a dagger and the best part of a sword.
The atmosphere in these baking chambers would have been of a strongly reducing character and modern experiments have confirmed that a spongy copper could be smelted in this way.
But only one of these was smelted, the others being fashioned from meteoric iron.
According to Theodore Wertime, the first deliberately smelted iron seems to have been produced when bronze products had reached perfection and where copper, lead and iron ores were in abundance: northern Anatolia along the shores of the Black Sea.
The copper and the tin must be smelted by you personally, and they must be virgin metals.
Sheet of tin and ingot of copper, different shapes and substances, smelted together to make a third element, finer, stronger, more beautiful than either.
This ingot came with us from Crete, it was smelted from weathered copper-stone, as pure as ever you could find in a natural state, washed and washed again by the rain since first it pushed up from the womb of earth.