The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Smelt \Smelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smelted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Smelting.] [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. sm[aum]lta, D.
smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG.
smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. ?????. Cf. Enamel,
Melt, Mute, v. i., Smalt.] (Metal.)
To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and
refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or
scorify; as, to smelt tin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Smelting \Smelt"ing\,
a. & n. from Smelt.
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Smelting furnace (Metal.), a furnace in which ores are
smelted or reduced.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "smelting":
architecture, assembly, blazing, blistering, branding, building,
burning, calcination, carbonization, casting, cauterization,
cautery, cineration, combustion, composition, concremation,
construction, conversion, cracking, crafting, craftsmanship,
creation, cremation, cultivation, cupellation, deflagration,
destructive distillation, devising, distillation, distilling,
elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning,
flaming, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing,
handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, incineration, machining, making,
manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, oxidation,
oxidization, parching, prefabrication, preparation, processing,
producing, pyrolysis, raising, refining, scorching, scorification,
searing, self-immolation, shaping, singeing, suttee, the stake,
thermogenesis, vesication, workmanship