Usually means: Small, silvery fish; edible species.
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  1. smelts: Merriam-Webster
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  6. smelts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. smelts: Wiktionary
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  9. smelts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (smelt)

noun:  Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
noun:  (obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.
noun:  Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
noun:  Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
verb:  To fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld.
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