the stem of SMELT v. in combination, as smelt-furnace, -house [Du. smelthuis, G. schmelzhaus], -mill, places where smelting is carried on.
1684. Phil. Trans., XVII. 741. When the Smelt-Houses were up at Keswick,… this Work was left good.
1771. Ann. Reg., 90. Destroying the wear of Mr. Smith’s smelt-mill.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. vi. Those jingling sheet-iron Aprons, wherein your otherwise half-naked Vulcans hammer and smelt in their smelt-furnace.
1860. Indenture, The cottage, shop, and buildings formerly a smelthouse.
