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smithy Definition

smithy (smit̸hē, smit̸hē)

noun pl. smith·ies

  1. the workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith
  2. blacksmith

Etymology: ME smithi < OE smiththe (< smith) or ON smithja (< smithr, smith)

smithy Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • include: Each of the four separate yards included smithies, where iron fittings for the ships were prepared.
  • work: A few premises however, have survived as working smithies although nowadays the work is mainly art and craft based rather than agricultural.
  • have: The Ridges on the southern boundary of the site has an early iron smithy and an ironstone mine dating to before 1631.

Preposition: on

  • green: The smithy on the village green is still worked [ 1983 ] .

Adjective modifier

  • old: The house is a large airy 200 year old former smithy on the edge of a small hamlet.
  • former: The house is a large airy 200 year old former smithy on the edge of a small hamlet.
  • local: No wonder the local smithies were near the White Horse, the Angel and the Hare and Hounds.
  • own: One man even saved £ 100 during the War to put down on buying his own smithy at home.

Modifies a noun

  • door: From the steep descent above Clachan he saw the blacksmith standing outside the smithy door.
  • work: Samuel Chadwick relates that when he was a boy, he often went to the local blacksmith shop to watch the smithy work.
  • coal: In an old report, dated 1825, the following coal was available: Smithy Coal, .. .
  • cottage: Smithy Cottage is proud to be part of it.
  • bridge: Smithy Bridge was re-opened on 10th December after 9 month's closure.

Noun used with modifier

  • village: Now, Tom was a half trained apprentice in sole charge of the village smithy.
  • iron: Saxo-Norman material from the ninth to mid-twelfth century includes pottery; post-holes of a timber structure; animal bones; iron smithy.
smithy Quotes

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth