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Tailor vs Blacksmith - What's the difference?

tailor | blacksmith |

As nouns the difference between tailor and blacksmith

is that tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing while blacksmith is a person who forges iron.

As a verb tailor

is to make, repair, or alter clothes.

tailor

English

(wikipedia tailor)

Alternative forms

* tailour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
  • (Australia) The fish .

    • Derived terms

    * tailorbird * tailoress * tailor-fashion * tailor-made * tailor's chalk * tailor's dummy

    Synonyms

    * (fish ) bluefish

    Related terms

    * dressmaker * seamster

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make, repair, or alter clothes.
  • To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
  • To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
    • .

    References

    * Australian Fish and How to Catch Them , Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6.

    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