Smithy vs Snithy - What's the difference?
smithy | snithy |
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:
As a proper noun smithy
is a nickname of the surname smith.As an adjective snithy is
sharp; cutting.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."