blacksmith
nounverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈblæk.smɪθ//
A person who forges iron.
noun
- 1
A person who forges iron.
The blacksmith may forge what Religion he pleases.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.
- 2
informalA person who shoes horses.
- 3
A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
Etymology
From black (color of forged iron) + smith (related to smite).
verb
- 1
To work as a blacksmith.
Forms
- plural
- blacksmiths
- past tense
- blacksmithed
- past participle
- blacksmithed
- present participle
- blacksmithing
- third person singular
- blacksmiths