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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person or thing that melts.
2. 2
   a worker who melts substances (metal or wax etc.) wordnet
3. 3
   A furnace used for melting iron in a foundry.
4. 4
   A laborer who operates such a furnace.
5. 5
   A variety of peach in which the flesh parts freely from the stone when ripe, also known as a free-stone.

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6. 6
   Obsolete spelling of milter. alt-of, obsolete

Etymology

From melt + -er.

Related phrases

face-melter

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