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melter

melter noun: a person or thing that melts. Also the obsolete spelling of milter.

Noun

melter (plural melters)

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

Also used as

melter is also the obsolete spelling of milter.

Forms of melter

pluralmelters

Origin of melter

From melt + -er.

Words formed from melter

Questions about melter

What does melter mean?
Melter means a person or thing that melts.
What part of speech is melter?
Melter is a noun.
What is the plural of melter?
The plural of melter is melters.

Words near melter in the dictionary

  1. meltedness
  2. melteigite
  3. melteigites
  4. meltem
  5. meltemi
  6. melter
  7. melters
  8. meltest
  9. melteth
  10. Meltham
  11. meltier

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