Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An establishment or place for smelting ores.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A house or place for smelting.

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  • noun A building or place for smelting.

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  • noun an industrial plant for smelting

Etymologies

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smelt +‎ -ery?

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Examples

  • The agency quotes a company manager, Jong Song Ho, as saying the drink has “proved efficacious among workers of such industrial establishments as thermal power station and smeltery and at medical institutions”. via Arbroath

    North Korea Hails New ‘Anti-Ageing Super Drink’ | Impact Lab 2010

  • You know, when we trapped that bunch of Tanu engineers near the smeltery, one of 'em let off a really heavy curse before he died.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • The metalsmith pointed out that the wilderness smeltery should become the site of a new human stronghold.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • A sunset which had hung the sky with rose, painted the mountain-tops and turned the West into a blazing smeltery of dreams, had slowly yielded to a night starlit, velvety, breathless, big with the gentle witchcraft of an amber moon.

    Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

  • But what was worse, I had to lie all night on sharp flints -- _i. e._, the slag or _debris_ of an iron smeltery or old forge out of doors -- in a terrible rain, and, though tired to death, got very little sleep; nor had we any food whatever even then or the next day.

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • The pipes, according to tests carried out at a local smeltery, are made chiefly of iron, but with an unusual thirty percent silicon dioxide in their matrix.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • A worker walks between stacks of high-purity aluminum ingots at the Khakas aluminium smeltery in the Siberian city of Sayanogorsk, 500km south of Krasnoyarsk,

    Taipei Times 2009

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