smithy

UK /ˈsmɪði/ US /ˈsmɪði/
noun 1verb 1name 1

Definitions

noun

1

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

1

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

1

A nickname of the surname Smith.

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