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melter

noun

Etymology

From melt + -er.

  1. derived from *(s)meld-✻
  2. inherited from *meltaną✻
  3. inherited from *meltan✻
  4. inherited from meltan
  5. inherited from melten
  6. suffixed as melter — “melt + er”

Definitions

  1. A person or thing that melts.

  2. A furnace used for melting iron in a foundry.

  3. A laborer who operates such a furnace.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A variety of peach in which the flesh parts freely from the stone when ripe, also known…

      A variety of peach in which the flesh parts freely from the stone when ripe, also known as a free-stone.

    2. Obsolete spelling of milter.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA