smithy
See also: Smithy
English
Etymology
From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ, whence also Old English smiþþe (whence (the doublet) obsolete English smithe).
Pronunciation
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 smith, present participle ies, 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:
Translations
to forge by hand
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