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Foundry vs Smithy - What's the difference?

foundry | smithy |

As a noun foundry

is a facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry , etc.

As a proper noun smithy is

a nickname of the surname smith.

foundry

English

Noun

(wikipedia foundry) (foundries)
  • A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry , etc.
  • The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.

    • Related terms

    * type foundry

    smithy

    English

    Noun

    (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.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (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."