Meaning

The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works; a forge..

Definitions by Sense

1. The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works; a forge.
2. (uncommon) To forge (metal), especially by traditional blacksmith methods.

Example Sentences

Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.

The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.

Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.

"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]

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."

Word Forms

• smithies
• smithying
• smithied

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