smithy
/ˈsmɪði/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works; a forge.
verb
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.""