Definition of "smelts" []

• Plural form of smelt. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of smelt. (verb)

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• "Lent, and at the beginning of March, our fishers took great abundance of the fish called smelts, wherewith, during the Fast, our Brothers were fed, and also many poor beggars at our gates."
• "They were called smelts, and, on looking, she found a rule for cooking them, just as she had expected."
• "Here it lies buried till the spring, when, about the latter end of March, it begins to exclude the young, which gradually increase to four or five inches in length, and are then termed smelts or smouts."