smelled vs smelt
smelt
Definitions
noun
- small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
- small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
verb
- extract (metals) by heating
Examples
I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot.
They wor wed at Midsummer, an Sydney kept his word abaat smookin -- he started chewin, an suckin owd empty pipes, but it worn't like smookin, an whenivver he smelt th 'reek ov a cigar it fair set him longin, but like a man owt to do, he didn't braik his promise.
The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
