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Webster 1913 Edition


Smithy

Smith′y

(-y̆)
,
Noun.
[AS.
smiððe
, fr.
smið
; akin to D.
smidse
,
smids
, OHG.
smitta
, G.
schmiede
, Icel.
smiðja
. See
Smith
,
Noun.
]
The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.
[Written also
smiddy
.]
Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village
smithy
stands.
Longfellow.

Webster 1828 Edition


Smithy

SMITH'Y

,
Noun.
The shop of a smith. [I believe never used.]

Definition 2024


Smithy

Smithy

See also: smithy

English

Proper noun

Smithy

  1. A nickname of the surname Smith.

smithy

smithy

See also: Smithy

English

Noun

smithy (plural smithies)

  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.

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Verb

smithy (third-person singular simple present smithies, present participle smithying, simple past and past participle smithied)

  1. (uncommon) to forge, especially by hand
    • 1995, John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth, page 59:
      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."

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