blacksmithery
(ˌblæksˈmɪθərɪ)
[f. blacksmith + -ery; cf. smithery.]
1. A smithy. U.S.
| a 1854 J. F. Kelly Humors of Falconbridge (1856) 303 The town—of some four houses, six ‘groceries’, a store and blacksmithery—was aroused. 1872 U.S. Office Indian Affairs Rep. 1871 327 The fixed property of this reservation consists of agents quarters, 3 dwellings, 2 blacksmitheries. |
2. Blacksmith's work. orig. U.S.
| 1869 Overland Monthly III. 10 In North Carolina, as in the North, blacksmithery, wagon-making, coopery, and other sorts of hard-handed industry, were in noisy blast. 1936 J. Grierson High Failure vi. 134 Altering its rake—a tricky piece of blacksmithery. 1938 Antiquity XII. 8 The blacksmithery of their simple ironwork. |