Meanings
smither1
plural smithers
- in pluralA fragment, shard or small piece.
My lass, when I cooms to die, / Smash the bottle to smithers, the Divil's in 'im,' said I.
1880, Alfred Tennyson, “[Ballads and Other Poems.] The Northern Cobbler”, in Ballads and Other Poems, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 381 more example
That claim of mine, which was yours, has got a seventeen-foot vein and a sandstone roof, and not a smither of slate or bone in it.
1920, Kennett Harris, Meet Mr. Stegg, page 164
smither2
plural smithers
- A smith (worker with iron or other metals; one who smiths)
Smither3
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Translations
Finnish sirpale
- sirpalefragment
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