(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
Smelt is a past tense and past participle of smell . (mainly BRIT)
2.
To ~ a substance containing metal means to process it by heating it until it melts, so that the metal is extracted and changed chemically.
Darby was looking for a way to improve iron when he hit upon the idea of ~ing it with coke instead of charcoal.
VERB: V n