smithy
Collocations
5ADJ.
busy, inside, intact, still
VERB + SMITHY
forge, workshop
SMITHY + NOUN
soul, walls
PREP.
from, in, out, out, with
ADV.
traditionally
Definitions
noun
The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge.
Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.
The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.
verb
To forge (metal), especially by traditional blacksmith methods.
"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]
So the old smith went out to his smithy and weighed out iron enough to make a stout staff a stone weight, and he smithied it well while his son looked on. […] So they weighed six stone of iron and smithied a great bent club like a shinny, and when that was made and cooled the smith's son said, "that will do."
name
A nickname of the surname Smith.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.
WiktionaryThe workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.
WiktionaryClose to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwo
Wiktionary"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]
WiktionarySo the old smith went out to his smithy and weighed out iron enough to make a stout staff a stone weight, and he smithied it well while his son looked on. […] So they weighed six stone of iron and smi
WiktionaryWelcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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