blacksmith
(ˈblæksmɪθ)
a. A smith who works in iron or black metal, as distinguished from a ‘whitesmith’ who works in tin or white metal.
| 1483 Act 1 Rich. III, xii. §1 Artificers of the said Realm..Bladesmiths, Blacksmiths, Spurriers, Goldbeaters. c 1500 Cocke Lorell's B. 9 Brydel bytters, blacke smythes, and ferrars. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 31 ¶3 Having got a Black-Smith of Lemnos to make her Son's Weapons. 1813 Parl. Debate in Examiner 24 May 326/2 If this should be decided to be a valid marriage, the poor Gretna green Blacksmith would be ruined. 1860 Tyndall Glac. ii. §19 A clever blacksmith can make a nail red-hot by hammering it. |
b. blacksmith's (U.S. blacksmith) shop, a smithy.
| 1752 in New Hampshire Probate Rec. (1915) III. 454 The Blacksmiths Shop which stand[s] on the home lot. 1795 P. M. Freneau Poems 421 Unless the [stage-]driver..Has made some business for the black-smith-shop. 1845 F. Douglass Life (1846) 94 Fred, go to the blacksmith's shop and get me a new punch. 1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 390/1 Perhaps he had better ride over to the blacksmith shop. |
Hence ˈblacksmithing n.
| 1830 Galt Lawrie T. ii. i. (1849) 43 For blacksmithing a prime hammer. 1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Equat. Afr. xxvi. 464 In their blacksmithing operations. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. IV. lvii. 169 If he doesn't like the blacksmithing. |