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Blacksmith vs Stiddy - What's the difference?

blacksmith | stiddy |

As nouns the difference between blacksmith and stiddy

is that blacksmith is a person who forges iron while stiddy is an anvil.

As an adjective stiddy is

eye dialect of steady.

blacksmith

English

(wikipedia blacksmith)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who forges iron.
  • *(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
  • *:The blacksmith may forge what 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.
  • (lb) A person who shoes horses; a farrier.
  • A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis'' or ''Heliastes punctipinnis ).

    • Usage notes

    Historically, blacksmiths in small communities have played a number of other roles, including farrier, wainwright and wheelwright. However, blacksmithing properly refers to the forging of iron, and blacksmiths and farriers themselves make the distinction.

    Synonyms

    * ironsmith

    Hypernyms

    * smith, metalsmith * smithy

    Coordinate terms

    * goldsmith, whitesmith, silversmith, platinumsmith, farrier, forge

    stiddy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Ernest Thompson Seton, title=Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Ye got the drop on me," he said; "I ain't got no gun; but look-a here, stranger, that there little B'ar is the only pard I got; he's my stiddy company an' we're almighty fond o' each other. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1882, author=Louisa M. Alcott, title=Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ma always likes to have me, I'm so patient and stiddy , she says," answered Prue, for the responsibility of this great undertaking did not rest upon her, so she took a cheerful view of things. }}

    Noun

    (stiddies)
  • An anvil
  • :2003 Howard Peach, "Curious Tales of Old North Yorkshire?" [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lSGub5NxZNYC&pg=PA56&dq=stiddy+mulgrave+lythe&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=2#v=onepage&q=stiddy%20mulgrave%20lythe&f=false]
  • ::On special occasions at Lythe the old stiddy (anvil) is dragged outside and primed with wooden plugs containing gunpowder. When all spectators are well out of any possible danger, the plugs are fired with a prod from an iron pole.
  • A blacksmith's shop; a stithy.