different between swelter vs spelter

English

Etymology

From Middle English sweltren, swaltren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-Germanic *sweltan? (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt +? -er (frequentative suffix). More at swelt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sw?l.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sw?l.t?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(r)

Verb

swelter (third-person singular simple present swelters, present participle sweltering, simple past and past participle sweltered)

1. (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
2. (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
3. (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter

     It was so rare a piece of fun
     To see the swelter'd cattle run

Translations

Noun

swelter (plural swelters)

1. Intense heat.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lewters, Welters, welters, wrestle

English

Etymology

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

Noun

spelter (usually uncountable, plural spelters)

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

Anagrams

• pelters, petrels, respelt