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单词 smelter
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smeltern.1

Brit. /ˈsmɛltə/, U.S. /ˈsmɛltər/
Etymology: < smelt v. + -er suffix1. Compare Dutch smelter, Middle Swedish and Swedish smältare, German schmelzer.
1.
a. One who smelts; a workman engaged in smelting; also, an owner of smelting-works.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > refiner or smelter
smelter1455
reducer1877
1455 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 364 [Nicholas Bucke employed by the abbot as a] smeltar [at his lead mines].
1582 in Trans. Jewish Hist. Soc. Eng. (1903) 4 93 All manner of Charges of fireworke and smeltars wages.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 68 The smelter having taken to himself perhaps one part more for his expence.
1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. vii. 149 The miners usually..dispose of their ore to the smelters.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. ii. 38 The miner and smelter who extracted or prepared the iron.
1891 Daily News 6 July 2/6 Manufacturers and smelters are not disposed to accept forward contracts at the current rates.
b. smelter's fume (see quot. 1875).
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2220/1 Smelter's Fume, the metallic fume resulting from the smelting of lead, the sublimation of zinc from ore, mercury from cinnabar, etc.
2. Smelting-works; a smeltery. Originally U.S.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > for melting or smelting
melting shop1555
smelting-house1610
smelt-house1693
smelt-mill1772
smeltery1814
forge1839
smelter1877
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 235 Several smelters are in course of construction to reduce these ores to ingots at home.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 July 3/2 On completion of eight additional smelters and other works.
3. attributive, as smelter-man, smelter returns.
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1896 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 4 Sept. The millionaire smelterman.
1898 Liebold Woman Proposes 68 We tax the gross output of the mines based on the mill and smelter returns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

smeltern.2

Brit. /ˈsmɛltə/, U.S. /ˈsmɛltər/
Etymology: < smelt n.1 + -er suffix1.
One who fishes for smelts; a smelt-catcher.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for others
shadder1630
smelter1845
grayling angler1847
haker1856
sharker1885
snoeker1959
1845 Zoologist 3 1080 A smelter may be deemed the personification of patience.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads iii. 23 The smelter passes the night in his boat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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