smithy

plural smithies

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

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

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   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.

   1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 278

   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.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden

   Synonyms: forge, smithery

present singular third person smithies · participle present smithying · participle past smithied · past smithied

1. uncommonTo forge (metal), especially by traditional blacksmith methods.

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

   1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

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   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."

   1995, John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth, page 59

1. A nickname of the surname Smith.