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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
The village
smithy
stands. Longfellow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Smithy
SMITH'Y
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Smithy
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See also: Smithy
English
Noun
smithy (plural smithies)
- 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.
Translations
forge — see forge
Verb
smithy (third-person singular simple present smithies, present participle smithying, simple past and past participle smithied)
- (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."
- 1995, John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth, page 59: