blacksmith

American  

[blak-smith] / ˈblækˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. a person who makes horseshoes and shoes horses.

2. a person who forges objects of iron.

3. a blackish damselfish, Chromis punctipinnis, inhabiting coastal waters off southern California.

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blacksmith British  

/ ˈblækˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. an artisan who works iron with a furnace, anvil, hammer, etc

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Etymology

Origin of blacksmith

1250–1300; Middle English; black (in reference to iron or black metal), smith ( def. ); whitesmith

Example Sentences

Anderson is also in want of a blacksmith and nailer to be paid wages as a foreman, which would therefore make them white.

From The Wall Street Journal

The game was played on a field behind the shop of the local blacksmith.

From The Wall Street Journal

Became a blacksmith — he put the shoes on the horses that Barton and his constables were going to use to pursue Las Manillas.

From Los Angeles Times

At the Radhwan house, the blacksmith finally dared to open his eyes five minutes after the gunmen left, only to find 17 of his family members bloodied around him.

From Los Angeles Times

Episodes from the first half of the 1960s, which often featured a young Burt Reynolds as a half-Comanche blacksmith in Dodge City, play like allegories about racism as the civil rights movement was simmering.

From Los Angeles Times