1. a small silvery fish that lives in both fresh and salt water

1. to melt ore in order to extract metal from it
2. past tense and past participle of smell

Examples

• The fishermen caught several smelt in the river.
• Smelt are popular bait fish for larger species.
• The factory smelts iron ore to produce steel.
• They smelt copper from the raw ore.
• I smelt something burning in the kitchen.
• She had smelt the flowers before picking them.
• The workers smelt tons of metal every day.