smelt
verb- smelt something
to heat and melt ore (= rock that contains metal) in order to obtain the metal it contains 熔炼;提炼(金属) a method of smelting iron 一种炼铁方法
Oxford Collocations DictionarySmelt is used with these nouns as the object:- iron
- ore
- past tense, past participle of smell
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German smelten; related to the verb melt.