SMELT. [See Smelled.] SMELT, noun A small fish that is very delicate food. But in Europe, a fish of the truttaceous kind, so names from its peculiar smell. SMELT, verb transitive To melt, an ore, for the purpose of separating the metal from extraneous substances.
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