0 a factory or machine in which metal is smelted
1 a machine for taking metal out of rock by smelting it (= heating it to a very high temperature), or a factory that uses these machines:
Although most of the smelter emissions are deposited close by, they still represent a major source of circumpolar contamination.
Large remnant trees were used, but the iron smelters by then consistently ventured into the swamps to obtain supplementary fuel.
Lead smelters and battery melting plants represent obvious hazards.
It appears first on the periphery of swamps, in the areas most accessible to iron smelters working near them.
Decay, sea spray, and volcanic eruptions annually release more sulfur than all the power plants, smelters, and other industries in the world.
We should now be looking ahead constructively to see how we can get the smelter reopened.
The smelter started operating and men were retrained to work in the industry.
The steel smelter is entitled to extra meat or bacon.
