(smelt) v.t. Metall.
1. To reduce (ores) by fusion in a furnace.
2. To obtain (a metal) from the ore by a process including fusion.
—v.i.
3. To melt or fuse, as a metal. [<MDu. smelten melt]

(smelt) noun plural smelts or smelt
Any of certain small silvery food fishes (genus Osmerus or a related genus), of the northern Atlantic and Pacific. [OE]

(smelt)
Alternative past tense and past participle of SMELL.