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spelter

spelter noun: zinc, often in blocks or ingot form.

Noun

spelter (usually uncountable, plural spelters)

  1. (usually) zinc, often in blocks or ingot form.
  2. (countable, uncountable, usually) Zinc alloyed with another metal (especially copper), used as a solder.
  3. (countable, usually) An objet d'art made from zinc.

Verb

spelter (third-person singular simple present spelters, present participle speltering, simple past and past participle speltered)

  1. To combine copper and metallic zinc to form an alloy.

spelter meaning in Hindi and Tamil

spelter in Hindi

spelter, pewter
जस्ता jastā

spelter in Tamil

துத்தநாகம், நவச்சாரம்

Forms of spelter

Noun
pluralspelters
Verb
third-person singular presentspelters
present participlespeltering
past participlespeltered
pastspeltered

Origin of spelter

Related to, and perhaps derived from, Middle Dutch speauter. Possibly related to pewter.

Words formed from spelter

Questions about spelter

What does spelter mean?
Spelter means zinc, often in blocks or ingot form.
What is spelter in Hindi?
Spelter in Hindi is जस्ता (jastā). See Spelter meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is spelter?
Spelter can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of spelter?
The plural of spelter is spelters.

Words near spelter in the dictionary

  1. spelt one's name
  2. spelt out
  3. spelt someone's name
  4. spelt things out
  5. spelted
  6. spelter
  7. speltered
  8. speltering
  9. spelterman
  10. speltermen
  11. spelters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spelter (page history and authors); जस्ता (Hindi) (page history and authors); spelter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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