smithy
IPA: smˈɪθi
noun
- The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge.
- A nickname of the surname Smith.
verb
- (uncommon) to forge, especially by hand
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Examples of "smithy" in Sentences
- The village smithy closed in 1992.
- A smithy was active until the late 1940s.
- At the bottom is the village smithy and well.
- A forge is sometimes referred to as a smithy.
- Smithy is also the vernacular for a bloomery.
- Smithy is meant to be a mystery until the end.
- The castle basement was later used as a smithy.
- The workplace is sometimes referred to as a smithy.
- The workplace is sometimes referred to as a 'smithy'.
- A forge is housed in, and a necessary adjunct to, a smithy.
- A road house by a smithy was a road house that would prosper.
- The smithy was his school, the forge his master, teaching him -- what?
- The smithy was a three-sided shed, the forge in the middle, the anvil toward the front.
- The house and the smithy were the first structures Justen had seen within the great forest that were not grown by some tree or another.
- Then we have Iris and Hermes, the servants and messengers of Zeus; and next Hephaestus's smithy, which is stocked with all manner of cunning contrivances.
- Beyond the smithy was a single new building, low and long, a repetition of the Sarronnese barracks they had been quartered near for almost every night of their trip.
- When completed, the smithy was a low building of einderblock, sheet-rock, corrugated metal, and so on, plunked down in the middle of sage, paintbrush, Apache plume, and so on.
- Beyond the smithy were the school-house and the local constable's cottage, a few more cottages occupied by the schoolmaster, the smith, the saw-miller, and some unofficial residents, and, at the end of all, the Carrier's Rest, the township hotel.
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