What is the difference between smithy and blacksmith?
smithy | blacksmith |
The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge.
(uncommon) to forge, especially by hand
* 1995 , John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth , page 59:
A person who forges iron.
*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
*:The blacksmith may forge what he pleases.
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*: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 ).
Blacksmith is a hypernym of smithy.
As nouns the difference between smithy and blacksmith
is that smithy is the location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge while blacksmith is a person who forges iron.As a verb smithy
is to forge, especially by hand.smithy
English
Noun
(smithies)- Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.
Verb
(en-verb)- 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."