# melter

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
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.
5. Obsolete spelling of milter.

## Etymology
From melt + -er.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/melter