smithy
smithy
Definition
smithy (smit̸h′ē, smit̸h′ē)
noun pl. smith′·ies
- the workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith
- ☆ 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
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.
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