Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense smelts, present participle smelting, past tense, past participle smelted
1Smelt is a past tense and past participle of smell .
2VERB 熔炼;冶炼 To smelt a substance containing metal means to process it by heating it until it melts, so that the metal is extracted and changed chemically. 熔炼;冶炼
Darby was looking for a way to improve iron when he hit upon the idea of smelting it with coke instead of charcoal. [VERB noun]