Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A blacksmith's shop; a forge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The workshop of a smith, especially of a worker in iron; a forge.
- To forge in a blacksmith's fire or shop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The location where a
smith (particularly ablacksmith ) works, aforge . - verb uncommon to
forge , especially by hand
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When completed, the smithy was a low building of einderblock, sheet-rock, corrugated metal, and so on, plunked down in the middle of sage, paintbrush, Apache plume, and so on.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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The smithy was a three-sided shed, the forge in the middle, the anvil toward the front.
Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997
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Beyond the smithy was a single new building, low and long, a repetition of the Sarronnese barracks they had been quartered near for almost every night of their trip.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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Beyond the smithy was a single new building, low and long, a repetition of the Sarronnese barracks they had been quartered near for almost every night of their trip.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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The house and the smithy were the first structures Justen had seen within the great forest that were not grown by some tree or another.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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The house and the smithy were the first structures Justen had seen within the great forest that were not grown by some tree or another.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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The smithy was his school, the forge his master, teaching him -- what?
Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989
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A road house by a smithy was a road house that would prosper.
Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987
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Beyond the smithy were the school-house and the local constable's cottage, a few more cottages occupied by the schoolmaster, the smith, the saw-miller, and some unofficial residents, and, at the end of all, the Carrier's Rest, the township hotel.
Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900
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Then we have Iris and Hermes, the servants and messengers of Zeus; and next Hephaestus's smithy, which is stocked with all manner of cunning contrivances.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895
hernesheir commented on the word smithy
"Our village smithy no longer stands under a spreading chestnut tree. Instead we have an itinerant blacksmith who travels by car, trailing a portable forge.
A Farmer's Ruminations, by Clyde Higgs, printed in the British quarterly agricultural periodical The Countryman, Winter, 1956, p. 735.
September 29, 2009