smelts in English
noun
1
a small silvery fish that lives in both marine and fresh water and is sometimes fished commercially, in particular.
Larger salmon eat a variety of fishes such as herring and alewives, smelts , capelin, small mackerel, sand lace, and small cod.
verb
1
extract (metal) from its ore by a process involving heating and melting.
tin smelting
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1. What does Capelin mean? A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of northern waters, closely related to the smelts and
2. A blast furnace is a block that smelts ores, raw metals, iron and gold armor and tools, similar to a furnace, but at twice the rate