Definitions for Spelter

Spelter spel·ter

Spelling: [spel-ter]
IPA: /ˈspɛl tər/

Spelter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in Spelter (eelprst).

Definitions for Spelter

noun

  1. zinc, especially in the form of ingots.

Origin of Spelter

1655-65; origin uncertain; akin to Middle Dutch speauter, German spiauter spelter

Examples for Spelter

Zinc ore, from which spelter is obtained, reached the price of $112 a ton.

The heat should be continued only long enough to cause the spelter to flow into place and no longer.

American spelter was nearly $500 a ton, compared with $110 a ton before the war.

Brazing is done by clamping the work in the jaws and heating until the flux, then the spelter has melted and run into the joint.

The borax is generally powdered and mixed with the spelter, and both with water.

The buggy had pulled up close to a rough, broken, blistered cone of spelter stuff between ten and twenty feet high.

Soldering at a red heat by means of spelter is called brazing.

A piece of metal was cut from the pattern and the edges were brought together and brazed with spelter.

Before the war these four countries with the United States produced over nine-tenths of the world's spelter.

Swansea has almost a monopoly of the manufacture of spelter or zinc.

Word Value for Spelter
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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