smelt

Plural: smelt, smelts

Noun

• small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
• small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
• Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
• A fool; a simpleton.
• Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
• Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.

Verb

Verb Forms: smelted, smelting, smelts

• To extract metal from ore by melting.
• extract (metals) by heating
• inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
• emit an odor
• smell bad
• have an element suggestive (of something)
• become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
• simple past and past participle of smell
• To fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld.

Examples

• With careful consideration, he managed to SMELT a high-scoring word from the jumbled letters.

Synonyms

reek, sense, smack, smell, smell out

Anagrams of smelt